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Robust face detection is one of the most important pre-processing steps to support facial expression analysis, facial landmarking, face recognition, pose estimation, building of 3D facial models, etc. Although this topic has been intensely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Yutong Zheng , Chenchen Zhu , Khoa Luu , Chandrasekhar Bhagavatula , T. Hoang Ngan Le , Marios Savvides

We study Sparse Multiple Kernel Learning (SMKL), which is the problem of selecting a sparse convex combination of prespecified kernels for support vector binary classification. Unlike prevailing l1 regularized approaches that approximate a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Dimitris Bertsimas , Caio de Prospero Iglesias , Nicholas A. G. Johnson

Multi-kernel learning (MKL) exhibits well-documented performance in online non-linear function approximation. Federated learning enables a group of learners (called clients) to train an MKL model on the data distributed among clients to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Pouya M. Ghari , Yanning Shen

Advances in high-throughput technologies have originated an ever-increasing availability of omics datasets. The integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources is currently an issue for biology and bioinformatics. Multiple kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-04 Mitja Briscik , Gabriele Tazza , Marie-Agnes Dillies , László Vidács , Sébastien Dejean

This paper introduces a new and effective algorithm for learning kernels in a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) setting. Although, we consider a MTL scenario here, our approach can be easily applied to standard single task learning, as well. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Niloofar Yousefi , Cong Li , Mansooreh Mollaghasemi , Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Michael Georgiopoulos

The kernel function is introduced to solve the nonlinear pattern recognition problem. The advantage of a kernel method often depends critically on a proper choice of the kernel function. A promising approach is to learn the kernel from data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Ning Yuan , Xiao-Jun Wu , He-Feng Yin

Approximations based on random Fourier features have recently emerged as an efficient and formally consistent methodology to design large-scale kernel machines. By expressing the kernel as a Fourier expansion, features are generated based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-08 Eduard Gabriel Băzăvan , Fuxin Li , Cristian Sminchisescu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives, such as invariance to augmentations, variance preservation, and feature decorrelation, without requiring…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 M. Hadi Sepanj , Benyamin Ghojogh , Saed Moradi , Paul Fieguth

We present a geometric formulation of the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem. To do so, we reinterpret the problem of learning kernel weights as searching for a kernel that maximizes the minimum (kernel) distance between two convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-18 John Moeller , Parasaran Raman , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

By removing irrelevant and redundant features, feature selection aims to find a good representation of the original features. With the prevalence of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature selection has been proven effective in alleviating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ziyuan Lin , Deanna Needell

In this paper, we study the problem of sparse multiple kernel learning (MKL), where the goal is to efficiently learn a combination of a fixed small number of kernels from a large pool that could lead to a kernel classifier with a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Multiple kernel methods less consider the intrinsic manifold structure of multiple kernel data and estimate the consensus kernel matrix with quadratic number of variables, which makes it vulnerable to the noise and outliers within multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Liang Du , Xin Ren , Haiying Zhang , Peng Zhou

With the emergence of passive and active optical sensors available for geospatial imaging, information fusion across sensors is becoming ever more important. An important aspect of single (or multiple) sensor geospatial image analysis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Saurabh Prasad , Minshan Cui , Lifeng Yan

Kernel methods play an important role in machine learning applications due to their conceptual simplicity and superior performance on numerous machine learning tasks. Expressivity of a machine learning model, referring to the ability of the…

Kernel methods have been extensively utilized in machine learning for classification and prediction tasks due to their ability to capture complex non-linear data patterns. However, single kernel approaches are inherently limited, as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiyuan Shi , Jian Kang , Yi Li

Conditional Maximum Mean Discrepancy (CMMD) can capture the discrepancy between conditional distributions by drawing support from nonlinear kernel functions, thus it has been successfully used for pattern classification. However, CMMD does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Chuan-Xian Ren , Pengfei Ge , Dao-Qing Dai , Hong Yan

Although Faster R-CNN and its variants have shown promising performance in object detection, they only exploit simple first-order representation of object proposals for final classification and regression. Recent classification methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hao Wang , Qilong Wang , Mingqi Gao , Peihua Li , Wangmeng Zuo

Kernel methods serve as powerful tools to capture nonlinear patterns behind data in machine learning. The quantum kernel, integrating kernel theory with quantum computing, has attracted widespread attention. However, existing studies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Jing Li , Yanqi Song , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao

In many artificial intelligence and computer vision systems, the same object can be observed at distinct viewpoints or by diverse sensors, which raises the challenges for recognizing objects from different, even heterogeneous views.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-03 Xiaoyun Li , Jie Gui , Ping Li

Combining information from various image features has become a standard technique in concept recognition tasks. However, the optimal way of fusing the resulting kernel functions is usually unknown in practical applications. Multiple kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Alexander Binder , Shinichi Nakajima , Marius Kloft , Christina Müller , Wojciech Samek , Ulf Brefeld , Klaus-Robert Müller , Motoaki Kawanabe