Disaster management information systems for international humanitarian relief are developed in contexts involving local, national and inter-governmental organizations together with...
Edgar A. Maldonado, Carleen F. Maitland, Andrea Ho...
We present an algorithm, Hierarchical ISOmetric SelfOrganizing Map (H-ISOSOM), for a concise, organized manifold representation of complex, non-linear, large scale, high-dimension...
This paper presents a statistical model for textures that uses a non-negative decomposition on a set of local atoms learned from an exemplar. This model is described by the varianc...
The performance of many supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms is very sensitive to the choice of an appropriate distance metric. Previous work in metric learning and ada...
"Bag of words" models have enjoyed much attention and achieved good performances in recent studies of object categorization. In most of these works, local patches are mo...