AI Memos (1959 - 2004): Recent submissions

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    • Perceiving Illumination Inconsistencies in Scenes 

      Ostrovsky, Yuri; Cavanagh, Patrick; Sinha, Pawan (2001-11-05)
      The human visual system is adept at detecting and encoding statistical regularities in its spatio-temporal environment. Here we report an unexpected failure of this ability in the context of perceiving inconsistencies in ...

    • Detecting Faces in Impoverished Images 

      Torralba, Antonio; Sinha, Pawan (2001-11-05)
      The ability to detect faces in images is of critical ecological significance. It is a pre-requisite for other important face perception tasks such as person identification, gender classification and affect analysis. Here ...

    • Improving Multiclass Text Classification with the Support Vector Machine 

      Rennie, Jason D. M.; Rifkin, Ryan (2001-10-16)
      We compare Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machines on the task of multiclass text classification. Using a variety of approaches to combine the underlying binary classifiers, we find that SVMs substantially outperform Naive ...