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Images of scenes have various objects as well as abundant attributes, and diverse levels of visual categorization are possible. A natural image could be assigned with finegrained labels that describe major components, coarsegrained labels that depict high level abstraction, or a set of labels that reveal attributes. Such categorization at different concept layers can be modeled with label graphs encoding label information. In this paper, we exploit this rich information with a state-of-art deep learning framework, and propose a generic structured model that leverages diverse label relations to improve image classification performance. Our approach employs a novel stacked label prediction neural network, capturing both inter-level and intra-level label semantics. We evaluate our method on benchmark image datasets, and empirical results illustrate the efficacy of our model.

This paper introduces mass estimation-a base modelling mechanism in data mining. It provides the theoretical basis of mass and an efficient method to estimate mass. We show that it solves problems very effectively in tasks such as information retrieval, regression and anomaly detection. The models, which use mass in these three tasks, perform at least as good as and often better than a total of eight state-of-theart methods in terms of task-specific performance measures. In addition, mass estimation has constant time and space complexities.

This paper introduces mass estimation-a base modelling mechanism that can be employed to solve various tasks in machine learning. We present the theoretical basis of mass and efficient methods to estimate mass. We show that mass estimation solves problems effectively in tasks such as information retrieval, regression and anomaly detection. The models, which use mass in these three tasks, perform at least as well as and often better than eight state-of-the-art methods in terms of task-specific performance measures. In addition, mass estimation has constant time and space complexities.

Abstract. We present an algorithm for automatically clustering tagged videos. Collections of tagged videos are commonplace, however, it is not trivial to discover video clusters therein. Direct methods that operate on visual features ignore the regularly available, valuable source of tag information. Solely clustering videos on these tags is error-prone since the tags are typically noisy. To address these problems, we develop a structured model that considers the interaction between visual features, video tags and video clusters. We model tags from visual features, and correct noisy tags by checking visual appearance consistency. In the end, videos are clustered from the refined tags as well as the visual features. We learn the clustering through a max-margin framework, and demonstrate empirically that this algorithm can produce more accurate clustering results than baseline methods based on tags or visual features, or both. Further, qualitative results verify that the clustering results can discover sub-categories and more specific instances of a given video category.