Unsupervised Learning of Models for Recognition

@inproceedings{Weber2000UnsupervisedLO,
  title={Unsupervised Learning of Models for Recognition},
  author={Markus Weber and Max Welling and Pietro Perona},
  booktitle={ECCV},
  year={2000}
}
We present a method to learn object class models from unlabeled and unsegmented cluttered scenes for the purpose of visual object recognition. We focus on a particular type of model where objects are represented as flexible constellations of rigid parts (features). The variability within a class is represented by a joint probability density function (pdf) on the shape of the constellation and the output of part detectors. In a first stage, the method automatically identifies distinctive parts… 
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