24. C. Williams: On a Connection between Object Localization with a Generative Template of Features and Pose-space Prediction Methods

We address the task of localizing objects from a given object class in an image. The image is represented as a collection of ``visual words'' at interest points. The generative template of features (GTF) model defines a distribution over visual words and their spatial locations for each part of the object \citep{sudderth-iccv-05,fergus-fei-fei-perona-zisserman-05}.
We show how to derive pose-space prediction methods (such as the Hough transform) from the GTF. We also develop a connection between the GTF and the "constellation" model.