1. Combined Generative-Discriminative Learning for Object Recognition using Local Image Descriptors Open Access Author: Nag, Abhikesh Title: Combined Generative-Discriminative Learning for Object Recognition using Local Image Descriptors Graduate Program: Electrical Engineering Keywords: support vector machinesmixture modelsSIFT featuresgenerative-discriminative learning File: Download Thesis.pdf Committee Members: David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor