Specificity as a graph-based estimator of cross-entropy and KL divergence

BMVC 2006 - Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 459-468

  Twining, Carole ^a   Taylor, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS;

ARTIFICIAL DATA; CROSS ENTROPY; GENERALISATION; GRAPH-BASED; KL-DIVERGENCE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING EXAMPLE;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 35548972457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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