Nonparametric kernel estimators for image classification

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2989-2996

  Poczos, Barnabas ^a   Xiong, Liang ^a   Sutherland, Dougal J ^a   Schneider, Jeff ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDINALITIES; DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; FEATURE VECTORS; FINITE SET; KERNEL CLASSIFIERS; KERNEL ESTIMATORS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NUMERICAL RESULTS; REAL-WORLD DATASETS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84866685278     PISSN: 10636919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2012.6248028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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