Foreground focus: Unsupervised learning from partially matching images

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-166

  Lee, Yong Jae ^a   Grauman, Kristen ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature descriptor; Feature selection; Object recognition; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; CLUSTER ASSIGNMENT; CLUSTER MEMBERSHIPS; FEATURE CORRESPONDENCE; FEATURE DESCRIPTOR; FEATURE LEVEL; FEATURE SELECTION; FOREGROUND REGIONS; IMAGE CLUSTERING; IMAGE COLLECTIONS; IMAGE CONTENT; INTRA-CLUSTER; LOCAL FEATURE; MUTUAL REINFORCEMENT;

REINFORCEMENT; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 68849114784     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-009-0252-y     Document Type: Article

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