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A latent style model describing manga styles based on the proposed manga-specific features is constructed to facilitate novel style-based applications. Two manga-specific features, i.e., screentone features showing texture and shade, and panel features showing panel arrangement, are firstly proposed to describe manga pages. Based on the latent Dirichlet allocation technique, we discover latent style elements embedded in manga documents, which are described by visual words derived from manga-specific features.

An automatic news story clustering system is presented to facilitate efficient news browsing and summarization. We describe news content by considering both what objects appear and how these objects move in news stories. With Fisher embedding, we respectively encode local features, semantics features, and dense trajectories as Fisher vectors, based on which similarity between news stories can be well evaluated and thus better clustering performance can be obtained.

An elapsed facial emotion involves changes of facial contour due to the motions (such as contraction or stretch) of facial muscles located at the eyes, nose, lips and etc. Thus, the important information such as corners of facial contours that are located in various regions of the face are crucial to the recognition of facial expressions, and even more apparent for micro-expressions. In this paper, we propose the first known notion of employing intrinsic two-dimensional (i2D) local structures to represent these features for micro-expression recognition.

It is a great challenge to perform high level recognition tasks on videos that are poor in quality. In this paper, we propose a new spatio-temporal mid-level (STEM) feature bank for recognizing human actions in low quality videos. The feature bank comprises of a trio of local spatio-temporal features, i.e. shape, motion and textures, which respectively encode structural, dynamic and statistical information in video. These features are encoded into mid-level representations and aggregated to construct STEM.

In this paper, we present Discriminant Correlation Analysis (DCA), a feature level fusion technique that incorporates the class associations in correlation analysis of the feature sets. DCA performs an effective feature fusion by maximizing the pair-wise correlations across the two feature sets, and at the same time, eliminating the between-class correlations and restricting the correlations to be within classes.

Imaging techniques involve counting of photons striking a detector. Due to fluctuations in the counting process, the measured photon counts are known to be corrupted by Poisson noise. In this paper, we propose a blind dictionary learning framework for the reconstruction of photographic image data from Poisson corrupted measurements acquired by a \emph{compressive} camera.

Imaging techniques involve counting of photons striking a detector.
Due to fluctuations in the counting process, the measured
photon counts are known to be corrupted by Poisson
noise. In this paper, we propose a blind dictionary learning
framework for the reconstruction of photographic image data
from Poisson corrupted measurements acquired by a compressive
camera. We exploit the inherent non-negativity of the
data by modeling the dictionary as well as the sparse dictionary
coefficients as non-negative entities, and infer these directly

Color pixel encoding optimizes the conversion of linear physical values of light into integer values. The efficiency of such encoding methods depends on a trade-off between the bit-depth used and the visible distortion introduced by quantization. This efficiency for different color pixel encoding approaches has been evaluated in literature, without considering the fact that before transmission to the end-user, color encoded content needs to be compressed using a video codec.