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April 2013


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Discriminative Learning with Latent Variables For Cluttered Indoor Scene Understanding

Discriminative Learning with Latent Variables For Cluttered Indoor Scene Understanding

We address the problem of understanding an indoor scene from a single image in terms of recovering the room geometry (floor, ceiling, and walls) and furniture layout.


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Technical Perspective: Understanding Pictures of Rooms

The rich world is getting older, so we will see many efforts to build robots that can provide some in-home care for frail people. These robots will need computer programs that can see and understand rooms where people live.