An Implicit Shape Model for a given object category consists of a class-specific alphabet (
codebook
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) of local appearances that are prototypical for the object category, and of a spatial
probability distribution
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which specifies where each codebook entry may be found on the object.
B. Leibe, "Combined Object Categorization and Segmentation with an Implicit Shape Model", ETH Zurich, 2004
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