Brand Spankin' New Vision Papers from ICCV 2013
The International Conference of Computer Vision, ICCV, gathers the world's best researchers in …
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"I shot the cat with my proton gun."
I often listen to lectures and audiobooks when I drive more than 2 hours because I don't always…
everything is misc -- torralba cvpr paper to check out
Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous is a delightful read -- I just finished it today whi…
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This is the title of a powerful treatise written…
Understanding the role of categories in object recognition
If we set aside our academic endeavors of publishing computer vision and machine learning papers an…
The Visual Memex: Visual Object Recognition Without Categories
Figure 1 I have discussed the limitations of using rigid object categories in computer vision, and …
Wittgenstein's Critique of Abstract Concepts
In his Philosophical Investigations , Wittgenstein argues against abstraction -- via several though…
A Shift of Focus: Relying on Prototypes versus Support Vectors
The goal of today's blog post is to outline an important difference between traditional categor…
Exemplars, Prototypes, and towards a Theory of Concepts for AI
While initial musings (and some early theories) on Categorization come from Philosophy (think Categ…
Beyond Categorization: Getting Away From Object Categories in Computer Vision
Natural language evolved over thousands of years to become the powerful tool that is is today. When…