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MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Influence-based model decomposition
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STOC '00 Proceedings of the thirty-second annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
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Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation
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IRM: integrated region matching for image retrieval
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Unsupervised Multiresolution Segmentation for Images with Low Depth of Field
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Pattern Recognition Letters
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Computer Vision and Image Understanding
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ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part I
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Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part IV
Pairwise Clustering with Matrix Factorisation and the EM Algorithm
ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part II
Class-Specific, Top-Down Segmentation
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ECCV '02 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part III
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ECCV '00 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Computer Vision-Part II
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SCALE-SPACE '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Minimax Entropy and Learning by Diffusion
CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image Segmentation Using Local Variation
CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Clustering Appearances of 3D Objects
CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Scene Segmentation from 3D Motion
CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Learning to Form Large Groups of Salient Image Features
CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Laplacian Eigenmaps for dimensionality reduction and data representation
Neural Computation
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INFOVIS '02 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis'02)
Multiple motion analysis: in spatial or in spectral domain?
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on Face recognition
Efficient Graph-Based Image Segmentation
International Journal of Computer Vision
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Colorization using optimization
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers
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Automatic image annotation and retrieval using subspace clustering algorithm
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Generic Model Abstraction from Examples
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Partition-based logical reasoning for first-order and propositional theories
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on reformulation
Symmetry-based 3-D reconstruction from perspective images
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Region based image annotation through multiple-instance learning
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
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Hierarchy-Regularized Latent Semantic Indexing
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A Random Walk through Human Associations
ICDM '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
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COLING-02 proceedings of the 6th conference on Natural language learning - Volume 20
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Neural Computation
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Neural Computation
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MDM '05 Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Multimedia data mining: mining integrated media and complex data
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Pattern Recognition Letters
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ACSC '06 Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 48
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Pattern Recognition
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Spectral feature selection for supervised and unsupervised learning
Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning
Optimization based grayscale image colorization
Pattern Recognition Letters
Object segmentation using graph cuts based active contours
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ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 courses
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Computers in Biology and Medicine
Automatic hierarchical color image classification
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Robust path-based spectral clustering
Pattern Recognition
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
A framework for a video analysis tool for suspicious event detection
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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International Journal of Computer Vision
Robust Object Detection with Interleaved Categorization and Segmentation
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Computer Vision and Image Understanding
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Pattern Recognition
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CIVR '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval
Scalable Markov model-based image annotation
CIVR '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval
An overview of segmentation techniques for target detection in visual images
ICAI'08 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on International Conference on Automation and Information
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Image and Vision Computing
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WSEAS Transactions on Computers
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PRICAI '08 Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Contour Grouping with Partial Shape Similarity
PSIVT '09 Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Rim Symposium on Advances in Image and Video Technology
An intuitive model of perceptual grouping for HCI design
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TSVM-HMM: Transductive SVM based hidden Markov model for automatic image annotation
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Ranking-based clustering of heterogeneous information networks with star network schema
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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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Evolutionary image segmentation based on multiobjective clustering
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
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Balls hierarchy: image segmentation by graph spanner
ISBI'09 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international conference on Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
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Appearance contrast for fast, robust trail-following
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Textural image segmentation using discrete cosine transform
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Image and Vision Computing
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ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
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Scene context modeling for foreground detection from a scene in remote monitoring
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Community evolution detection in dynamic heterogeneous information networks
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Computers and Operations Research
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Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
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We propose a novel approach for solving the perceptual grouping problem in vision. Rather than focusing on local features and their consistencies in the image data, our approach aims at extracting the global impression of an image. We treat image segmentation as a graph partitioning problem and propose a novel global criterion, the normalized cut, for segmenting the graph. The normalized cut criterion measures both the total dissimilarity between the different groups as well as the total similarity within the groups. We show that an efficient computational technique based on a generalized eigenvalue problem can be used to optimize this criterion. We have applied this approach to segmenting static images and found results very encouraging.