Multi-instance learning (MIL) is a useful tool for tackling labeling ambiguity in learning because it allows a bag of instances to share one label. Bag mapping transforms a bag into a single instance in a new space via instance selection and has drawn significant attention recently. To date, most existing work is based on the original space, using all instances for bag mapping, and the selected...

In traditional multiple instance learning (MIL), both positive and negative bags are required to learn a prediction function. However, a high human cost is needed to know the label of each bag—positive or negative. Only positive bags contain our focus (positive instances) while negative bags consist of noise or background (negative instances). So we do not expect to spend too much to label the ...

It is still a challenging problem to develop robust target tracking algorithm under various environments. Most of current target tracking algorithms are able to track objects well in controlled environments, but they usually fail in significant variation of the target’s scale, pose and plane rotation. One reason for such failure is that these object tracking algorithms employ fixed-size trackin...

In this article, we describe a feature selection algorithm which can automatically find relevant features for multiple instance learning. Multiple instance learning is considered an extension of traditional supervised learning where each example is made up of several instances and there is no specific information about particular instance labels. In this scenario, traditional supervised learnin...

Positive instance detection, especially for these in positive bags (true positive instances, TPIs), plays a key role for multiple instance learning (MIL) arising from a specific classification problem only provided with bag (a set of instances) label information. However, most previous MIL methods on this issue ignore the global similarity among positive instances and that negative instances ar...

The ability to predict a student's performance could be useful in a great number of different ways associated with university-level learning. In this paper, a grammar guided genetic programming algorithm, G3P-MI, has been applied to predict if the student will fail or pass a certain course and identifies activities to promote learning in a positive or negative way from the perspective of Multip...