Local photometric descriptors are a crucial low level component of numerous computer vision algorithms. In practice, these descriptors are constructed to be invariant to a class o...
Edgar Lobaton, Ramanarayan Vasudevan, Ron Alterovi...
We show that the stick-breaking construction of the beta process due to Paisley et al. (2010) can be obtained from the characterization of the beta process as a Poisson process. S...
John William Paisley, David M. Blei, Michael I. Jo...
An important trend in Web information processing is the support of multimedia retrieval. However, the most prevailing paradigm for multimedia retrieval, content-based retrieval (C...
ct One significant effort towards combining the virtues of Web search, viz. being accessible to untrained users and able to cope with vastly heterogeneous data, with those of dat...
Web photos in social media sharing websites such as Flickr are generally accompanied by rich but noisy textual descriptions (tags, captions, categories, etc.). In this paper, we p...