%%% -*-BibTeX-*- @inproceedings{ICCV13Lin, author = {Guosheng Lin and Chunhua Shen and David Suter and Anton {van den Hengel}}, title = {A General Two-step Approach to Learning-Based Hashing}, year = {2013}, month = {December}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'13)}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, venue = {ICCV}, pages = {}, volume = {}, publisher = {}, note = {}, eprint = {1309.1853}, url = {}, pdf = {}, project = {https://bitbucket.org/guosheng/two-step-hashing/}, abstract = { Most existing approaches to hashing apply a single form of hash function, and an optimization process which is typically deeply coupled to this specific form. This tight coupling restricts the flexibility of the method to respond to the data, and can result in complex optimization problems that are difficult to solve. Here we propose a flexible yet simple framework that is able to accommodate different types of loss functions and hash functions. This framework allows a number of existing approaches to hashing to be placed in context, and simplifies the development of new problem-specific hashing methods. Our framework decomposes hashing learning problem into two steps: hash bit learning and hash function learning based on the learned bits. The first step can typically be formulated as binary quadratic problems, and the second step can be accomplished by training standard binary classifiers. Both problems have been extensively studied in the literature. }, } @inproceedings{ICCV13Li, author = {Xi Li and Yao Li and Chunhua Shen and Anthony Dick and Anton {van den Hengel}}, title = {Contextual Hypergraph Modeling for Salient Object Detection}, year = {2013}, month = {December}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'13)}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, venue = {ICCV}, pages = {}, volume = {}, publisher = {}, note = {}, eprint = {1310.5767}, url = {}, pdf = {}, project = {https://bitbucket.org/chhshen/saliency-detection}, abstract = {Salient object detection aims to locate objects that capture human attention within images. Previous approaches often pose this as a problem of image contrast analysis. In this work, we model an image as a hypergraph that utilizes a set of hyperedges to capture the contextual properties of image pixels or regions. As a result, the problem of salient object detection becomes one of finding salient vertices and hyperedges in the hypergraph. The main advantage of hypergraph modeling is that it takes into account each pixel's (or region's) affinity with its neighborhood as well as its separation from image background. Furthermore, we propose an alternative approach based on center-versus-surround contextual contrast analysis, which performs salient object detection by optimizing a cost-sensitive support vector machine (SVM) objective function. Experimental results on four challenging datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches against the state-of-the-art approaches to salient object detection.}, }