Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

1997

@inproceedings{ScC1997,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	author =	{Bernt Schiele and James L. Crowley},
	title =	{The Concept of Visual Classes for Object Classification},
	booktitle =	{The 10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis},
	address =	{Lappeenranta, Finland},
	pages =	{43--50},
	month =	{June},
	year =	{1997},
	abstract =	{The article introduces the concept of \emph{visual
	classes} as a general framework for object classification. Visual
	classes group together appearances which are similar with respect to a
	set of image measurements. As defined here, visual classes are implicit
	in many object representation schemes (geometric as well as appearance
	based models). We argue that the identification of visual classes
	provides a powerful tool for object classification. They provide a
	first step to classification depending on information provided for
	recognition, including context dependency and relations in space and
	time between objects.

	The article introduces a statistical object representation which can be
	seen as a generalization of various object representations. Based on
	this statistical representation, the article introduces a possible
	extraction and representation of visual classes. First experimental
	results are given in order to validate the concept.},
}