VASC Seminar
Olivier Duchenne
PhD Student
ENS

A Graph-Matching Kernel for Object Categorization

Event Location: NSH 1507Bio: Olivier Duchenne received the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in École Normale Supérieure (ENS), in Paris in 2008. He then joined as a phD candidate the research team, WILLOW in the same university under the supervision of professor Jean Ponce. He received the best student paper, honorable mention, [...]

VASC Seminar
Ekaterina Taralova
PhD Student
Carnegie Mellon (internal)

Source Constrained Clustering

Abstract: We consider the problem of quantizing data generated from disparate sources, e.g. subjects performing actions with different styles, movies with particular genre bias, various conditions in which images of objects are taken, etc. These are scenarios where unsupervised clustering produces inadequate codebooks because algorithms like K-means tend to cluster samples based on data biases [...]