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A Note on Object Class Representation and Categorical Perception
(1999-12-17)
We present a novel scheme ("Categorical Basis Functions", CBF) for object class representation in the brain and contrast it to the "Chorus of Prototypes" scheme recently proposed by Edelman. The power and flexibility ...
Learning-Based Approach to Real Time Tracking and Analysis of Faces
(1999-09-23)
This paper describes a trainable system capable of tracking faces and facialsfeatures like eyes and nostrils and estimating basic mouth features such as sdegrees of openness and smile in real time. In developing this ...
A Trainable Object Detection System: Car Detection in Static Images
(1999-10-13)
This paper describes a general, trainable architecture for object detection that has previously been applied to face and peoplesdetection with a new application to car detection in static images. Our technique is a ...
Amorphous Computing
(1999-08-29)
Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behaviors from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are interconnected in unknown, ...
Proceedings of the Fourth PHANTOM Users Group Workshop
(1999-11-04)
This Report contains the proceedings of the Fourth Phantom Users Group Workshop contains 17 papers presented October 9-12, 1999 at MIT Endicott House in Dedham Massachusetts. The workshop included sessions on, Tools ...
Automatically Recovering Geometry and Texture from Large Sets of Calibrated Images
(1999-10-22)
Three-dimensional models which contain both geometry and texture have numerous applications such as urban planning, physical simulation, and virtual environments. A major focus of computer vision (and recently graphics) ...
Boosting Image Database Retrieval
(1999-09-10)
We present an approach for image database retrieval using a very large number of highly-selective features and simple on-line learning. Our approach is predicated on the assumption that each image is generated by a ...
Trans-membrane Signal Transduction and Biochemical Turing Pattern Formation
(1999-09-28)
The Turing mechanism for the production of a broken spatial symmetry in an initially homogeneous system of reacting and diffusing substances has attracted much interest as a potential model for certain aspects of ...
Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer
(1999-08-29)
This paper demonstrates that it is possible to generate a reasonably accurate coordinate system on randomly distributed processors, using only local information and local communication. By coordinate systems we imply ...
A Note on Support Vector Machines Degeneracy
(1999-08-11)
When training Support Vector Machines (SVMs) over non-separable data sets, one sets the threshold $b$ using any dual cost coefficient that is strictly between the bounds of $0$ and $C$. We show that there exist SVM ...