On the Combination of Information-Theoretic Kernels with Generative Embeddings
Classical methods to obtain classifiers for structured objects (e.g., sequences, images) are based on generative models and adopt a classical generative Bayesian framework. To embrace discriminative approaches (namely, support vector machines), the object
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Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition
Editor Marcello Pelillo DAIS Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy Series Editors Sameer Singh Rail Vision Europe Ltd. Castle Donington Leicestershire, UK
Sing Bing Kang Interactive Visual Media Group Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA
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For my parents, who made it possible
“Surely there is nothing more basic to thought and language than our sense of similarity. [. . . ] And every reasonable expectation depends on resemblance of circumstances, together with our tendency to expect similar causes to have similar effects.” Willard V.O. Quine
Foreword
The SIMBAD project was a Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) project funded by the European Commission between 2008 and 2011. It brought together an extraordinary group of talented researchers with a broad spectrum of different perspectives on
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