Idiap Research Institute

Modeling scenes with local descriptors and latent aspects

We present a new approach to model visual scenes in image collections, based on local invariant features and probabilistic latent space models. Our formulation provides answers ...

A Discriminative Kernel-Based Approach to Rank Images from Text Queries

This paper introduces a discriminative model for the retrieval of images from text queries. Our approach formalizes the retrieval task as a ranking problem, and introduces a lea...

Solvations: a semi-empirical procedure for including solvation in quantum mechanical calculations of large molecules

Pushing the envelope - aside [speech recognition

Despite successes, there are still significant limitations to speech recognition performance, particularly for conversational speech and/or for speech with significant acoustic ...

Boosting with Maximum Adaptive Sampling

Classical Boosting algorithms, such as AdaBoost, build a strong classifier without concern about the computational cost. Some applications, in particular in computer vision, may...