****************************************************************************** * * * Latent Topic Discovery using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) * * * ****************************************************************************** Source code for latent topic discovery using LDA. Require two third-party software packages: 1. SpatialPyramid [http://www.cs.illinois.edu/homes/slazebni/research/SpatialPyramid.zip] 2. topictoolbox [http://psiexp.ss.uci.edu/research/programs_data/toolbox.htm] Steps to run this code: 1. Extract and save the visual words from images by running: cvImgs2words.m 2. Infer the latent topics by running assignTopics.m The training/testing images are a subset of the UIUC-Sports dataset [http://vision.stanford.edu/lijiali/event_dataset/]. If you have any questions regarding the use of this code, please contact Shaohua Wan at shaohuawan@utexas.edu. 04/01/2014