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  • Horst Bischof

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  • Struck: Structured output tracking with kernels

    Sam Hare, Amir Saffari, Philip H. S. Torr

    International Conference on Computer Vision · 2011

    1,797
  • Struck: Structured Output Tracking with Kernels

    Sam Hare, Stuart Golodetz, Amir Saffari, Vibhav Vineet, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Stephen L. Hicks, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2015

    1,008
  • The Visual Object Tracking VOT2015 Challenge Results

    Matej Kristan, Jiřı́ Matas, Aleš Leonardis, Michael Felsberg, Luka Čehovin Zajc, Gustavo Fernandez, Tomáš Vojíř, Gustav Hager, +9 more

    2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) · 2015

    The Visual Object Tracking challenge 2015, VOT2015, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance and presents a new VOT 2015 dataset twice as large as in VOT2014 with full annotation of targets by rotated bounding boxes and per-frame attribute.

    902
  • Applications of machine learning to diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

    Monika A. Myszczynska, Poojitha N. Ojamies, Alix M.B. Lacoste, Daniel Neil, Amir Saffari, Richard James Mead, Guillaume M. Hautbergue, Joanna Dawn Holbrook, +1 more

    Nature Reviews Neurology · 2020

    How machine learning can aid early diagnosis and interpretation of medical images as well as the discovery and development of new therapies is discussed, and the latest developments in the use of machine learning to interrogate neurodegenerative disease-related datasets are described.

    592
  • The Visual Object Tracking VOT2014 Challenge Results

    Matej Kristan, Roman Pflugfelder, Aleš Leonardis, Jiřı́ Matas, Luka Čehovin Zajc, Georg Nebehay, Tomáš Vojíř, Gustavo Fernández, +22 more

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    The Visual Object Tracking challenge 2014, VOT2014, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance and introduces a new dataset with full annotation of targets by rotated bounding boxes and per-frame attribute.

    588
  • On-line Random Forests

    Amir Saffari, Christian Leistner, Jakob Santner, Martin Godec, Horst Bischof

    2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops · 2009

    562
  • PROST: Parallel robust online simple tracking

    Jakob Santner, Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Thomas Pock, Horst Bischof

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2010

    432
  • Knowledge-Augmented Language Model Prompting for Zero-Shot Knowledge Graph Question Answering

    Jinheon Baek, Alham Fikri Aji, Amir Saffari

    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations (NLRSE) · 2023

    The framework, Knowledge-Augmented language model PromptING (KAPING), requires no model training, thus completely zero-shot, and aims to answer the user’s question based on facts over a knowledge graph, on which the authors' outperforms relevant zero- shot baselines by up to 48% in average, across multiple LLMs of various sizes.

    224
  • Model Selection: Beyond the Bayesian/Frequentist Divide

    Isabelle Guyon, Amir Saffari, Gideon Dror, Gavin C. Cawley

    Journal of machine learning research · 2010

    The problem of avoiding overfitting is revisit in light of the latest results and the remarkable convergence of theories as different as Bayesian theory, Minimum Description Length, bias/variance tradeoff, Structural Risk Minimization, and regularization is noted.

    183
  • MIForests: Multiple-Instance Learning with Randomized Trees

    Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Horst Bischof

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2010

    A novel multiple-instance learning algorithm for randomized trees called MIForests, which achieves state-of-the-art results while being faster than previous approaches and being able to inherently solve multi-class problems.

    169
  • Semi-Supervised Random Forests

    Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Jakob Santner, Horst Bischof

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2009

    151
  • The Thermal Infrared Visual Object Tracking VOT-TIR2015 Challenge Results

    Michael Felsberg, Amanda Berg, Gustav Hager, Jörgen Ahlberg, Matej Kristan, Jiřı́ Matas, Aleš Leonardis, Luka Čehovin Zajc, +22 more

    2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) · 2015

    145
  • Efficient online structured output learning for keypoint-based object tracking

    S. Hare, Amir Saffari, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2012

    135
  • Compression-Based Averaging of Selective Naive Bayes Classifiers

    Isabelle Guyon, Amir Saffari

    Journal of machine learning research · 2007

    A Bayesian regularization technique to select the most probable subset of variables compliant with the naive Bayes assumption is introduced and it is shown that the compression-based averaged classifier outperforms the Bayesian model averaging scheme.

    128
  • On-line semi-supervised multiple-instance boosting

    Bernhard Zeisl, Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Horst Bischof

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2010

    123
  • Mintaka: A Complex, Natural, and Multilingual Dataset for End-to-End Question Answering

    Priyanka Sen, Alham Fikri Aji, Amir Saffari

    arXiv · 2022

    Mintaka is introduced, a complex, natural, and multilingual dataset designed for experimenting with end-to-end question-answering models, which includes 8 types of complex questions, including superlative, intersection, and multi-hop questions, which were naturally elicited from crowd workers.

    116
  • Online multi-class LPBoost

    Amir Saffari, Martin Godec, Thomas Pock, Christian Leistner, Horst Bischof

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2010

    108
  • On robustness of on-line boosting - a competitive study

    Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Peter M. Roth, Horst Bischof

    2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCV Workshops · 2009

    101
  • Have Your Text and Use It Too! End-to-End Neural Data-to-Text Generation with Semantic Fidelity

    Hamza Harkous, Isabel Groves, Amir Saffari

    International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2020

    This work presents DataTuner, a neural, end-to-end data- to-text generation system that makes minimal assumptions about the data representation and target domain, combining a fine-tuned language model with a semantic fidelity classifier.

    95
  • What do Models Learn from Question Answering Datasets?

    Priyanka Sen, Amir Saffari

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    It is found that no single dataset is robust to all of the authors' experiments and shortcomings in both datasets and evaluation methods are identified, which makes recommendations for building future QA datasets that better evaluate the task of question answering.

    80
  • Knowledge Graph-augmented Language Models for Complex Question Answering

    Priyanka Sen, Sandeep Mavadia, Amir Saffari

    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations (NLRSE) · 2023

    This paper proposes a new method for complex question answering where a knowledge graph retriever based on an end-to-end KGQA model with a language model that reasons over the retrieved facts to return an answer.

    78
  • Alternating Decision Forests

    Samuel Schulter, Paul Wohlhart, Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Peter M. Roth, Horst Bischof

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2013

    73
  • The Amazon Nova Family of Models: Technical Report and Model Card

    Amazon AGI, Langford, Aaron, Shah, Aayush, Gupta, Abhanshu, Abhimanyu Bhatter, Goyal, Abhinav, Abhinav Mathur, Abhinav Mohanty, +22 more

    arXiv · 2025

    A new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price performance are presented, and benchmarking results for core capabilities, agentic performance, long context, functional adaptation, runtime performance, and human evaluation are reported.

    71
  • Interactive Texture Segmentation using Random Forests and Total Variation

    Jakob Santner, Markus Unger, Thomas Pock, Christian Leistner, Amir Saffari, Horst Bischof

    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) · 2009

    This work proposes an efficient learning algorithm capable of handling arbitrary input data in Random Forests and proposes an online version of RFs, which renders retraining of the whole forest upon additional user input unnecessary.

    50
  • DEFactor: Differentiable Edge Factorization-based Probabilistic Graph Generation

    Rim Assouel, Mohamed M. Ahmed, Marwin Segler, Amir Saffari, Yoshua Bengio

    arXiv · 2018

    44

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