With the increasing market of cheap cameras, natural scene text has to be handled in an efficient way. Some works deal with text detection in the image while more recent ones poi...
The discovery of a person’s personally important places involves obtaining the physical locations for a person’s places that matter to his daily life and routines. This proble...
In spite of the popularity of probabilistic mixture models for latent structure discovery from data, mixture models do not have a natural mechanism for handling sparsity, where ea...
The bag-of-words approach has become increasingly attractive in the fields of object category recognition and scene classification, witnessed by some successful applications [5, 7...
Camera phones present new opportunities and challenges for mobile informationassociation and retrieval. The visual input in the real environment is a new and rich interaction moda...