It has been recently discovered that a faithful representation for the shape of some simple distributions can be constructed using invariant statistics [1, 2]. In this paper, we c...
In order to summarize a video consisting of a sequence of different activities, there are three fundamental problems: tracking the objects of interest, detecting the activity chan...
Autonomic computing is a grand-challenge vision of the future in which computing systems will manage themselves in accordance with high-level objectives specified by humans. The I...
Food recognition is difficult because food items are deformable objects that exhibit significant variations in appearance. We believe the key to recognizing food is to exploit the...
Shulin Yang, Mei Chen, Dean Pomerleau, Rahul Sukth...
Boundary descriptors may be used effectively in various image based recognition problems. However, when images are acquired in uncontrolled conditions, changes in pose and illumin...