Beyond Mahalanobis distance: Learning second-order discriminant function for people verification

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 45-50

  Li, Zhen ^a   Cao, Liangliang ^b   Chang, Shiyu ^a   Smith, John R ^b   Huang, Thomas S ^a  

^a UIUC   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DECISION BOUNDARY; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; DUAL SPACES; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGE PAIRS; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; METRIC LEARNING; QUADRATIC FUNCTION; SECOND ORDERS; SEMANTIC GAP; VERIFICATION PROBLEMS; VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; VISUAL PHENOMENA;

SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84864968110     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2012.6239342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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