Distance functions are an important component in many learning applications. However, the correct function is context dependent, therefore it is advantageous to learn a distance f...
Tolerance to pose variations is one of the key remaining problems in face recognition. It is of great interest in airport surveillance systems using mugshot databases to screen tr...
Despite advances in the archiving of digital video, we are still unable to efficiently search and retrieve the portions that interest us. Video indexing by shot segmentation has b...
Sameer Antani, David J. Crandall, Rangachar Kastur...
The detection of faces in images is fundamentally a rare event detection problem. Cascade classifiers provide an efficient computational solution, by leveraging the asymmetry in t...
Applications like multimedia retrieval require efficient support for similarity search on large data collections. Yet, nearest neighbor search is a difficult problem in high dimen...
Arjen P. de Vries, Nikos Mamoulis, Niels Nes, Mart...