In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
This paper describes nonparametric Bayesian treatments for analyzing records containing occurrences of items. The introduced model retains the strength of previous approaches that...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new salient object segmentation method, which is based on combining a saliency measure with a conditional random field (CRF) model. The propo...
Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala, Mikko Salo, Janne Heikkil...
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
Discrimination of images is necessary in many tasks, either understanding or indexing for example. Here we are concerned by indexing. More precisely we are working about initial l...