Learning an alphabet of shape and appearance for multi-class object detection

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-44

  Opelt, Andreas ^a   Pinz, Axel ^a   Zisserman, Andrew ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boosting; Category representation; Generic object recognition; Object categorization; Visual alphabet

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BOOSTING; CATEGORY REPRESENTATION; GENERIC OBJECT RECOGNITION; OBJECT CATEGORIZATION; VISUAL ALPHABET;

METAL WORKING SHAPERS;

EID: 51149105249     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-008-0139-3     Document Type: Article

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