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most citedUnsupervised Learning of Visual Features by Contrasting Cluster Assignments

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cs.CV2014

Sparse Modeling for Image and Vision Processing

Julien Mairal, Francis Bach, Jean Ponce

In recent years, a large amount of multi-disciplinary research has been conducted on sparse models and their applications. In statistics and machine learning, the sparsity principl…

cs.CV2014★ 174 cited

Convolutional Kernel Networks

Julien Mairal, Piotr Koniusz, Zaid Harchaoui +1

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of…

cs.CV2014★ 8 cited

Fast and Robust Archetypal Analysis for Representation Learning

Yuansi Chen, Julien Mairal, Zaid Harchaoui

We revisit a pioneer unsupervised learning technique called archetypal analysis, which is related to successful data analysis methods such as sparse coding and non-negative matrix…

cs.CV2014★ 29 cited

On learning to localize objects with minimal supervision

Hyun Oh Song, Ross Girshick, Stefanie Jegelka +3

Learning to localize objects with minimal supervision is an important problem in computer vision, since large fully annotated datasets are extremely costly to obtain. In this paper…

math.OC2014★ 17 cited

Incremental Majorization-Minimization Optimization with Application to Large-Scale Machine Learning

Julien Mairal

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of successively minimizing a sequence of upper bounds of the objective function. These upper bounds are tight at the current estimate,…