The extraction of a valuable set of features and the design of a discriminative classifier are crucial for target recognition in SAR image. Although various features and classifiers have been proposed over the years, target recognition under extended operating conditions (EOCs) is still a challenging problem, e.g., target with configuration variation, different capture orientations, and articul...

This work proposes a new research direction to address the lack of structures in traditional n-gram models. It is based on a weakly supervised dependency parser that can model speech syntax without relying on any annotated training corpus. Labeled data is replaced by a few hand-crafted rules that encode basic syntactic knowledge. Bayesian inference then samples the rules, disambiguating and com...

Complex visual data contain discriminative structures that are difficult to be fully captured by any single feature descriptor. While recent work in domain adaptation focuses on adapting a single hand-crafted feature, it is important to perform adaptation on a hierarchy of features to exploit the richness of visual data. We propose a novel framework for domain adaptation using a sparse and hier...

Extracting sparse representations with Dictionary Learning (DL) methods has led to interesting image and speech recognition results. DL has recently been extended to supervised learning (SDL) by using the dictionary for feature extraction and classification. One challenge with SDL is imposing diversity for extracting more discriminative features. To this end, we propose Incrementally Built Dict...

Learning linear subspaces for high-dimensional data is an important task in pattern recognition. A modern approach for linear subspace learning decomposes every training image into a more discriminative part (MDP) and a less discriminative part (LDP) via sparse coding before learning the projection matrix. In this paper, we present a new linear subspace learning algorithm through discriminative...

In this paper, we study the problem of using contextual data points of a data point for its classification problem. We propose to represent a data point as the sparse linear reconstruction of its context, and learn the sparse context to gather with a linear classifier in a supervised way to increase its discriminative ability. We proposed a novel formulation for context learning, by modeling th...

Bag-of-words document representations are often used in text, image and video processing. While it is relatively easy to determine a suitable word dictionary for text documents, there is no simple mapping from raw images or videos to dictionary terms. The classical approach builds a dictionary using vector quantization over a large set of useful visual descriptors extracted from a training set,...