Synergistic clustering of image and segment descriptors for unsupervised scene understanding

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3463-3470

  Steinberg, Daniel M ^a   Pizarro, Oscar ^a   Williams, Stefan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

clustering; hierarchical Bayesian models; Scene understanding; topic models; unsupervised learning; variational Bayes

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

CLUSTERING; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODELS; SCENE UNDERSTANDING; TOPIC MODEL; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

MODELS;

EID: 84898829318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCV.2013.430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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