In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
The extraction of the building models from remote-sensed data is an important work in the geographic information systems. This investigation describes an approach to integrate LIDA...
Abstract. Activity inference based on object use has received considerable recent attention. Such inference requires statistical models that map activities to the objects used in p...
Text segmentation, or named text binarization, is usually an essential step for text information extraction from images and videos. However, most existing text segmentation method...
In this paper, we propose a system identification approach for group activity recognition in traffic surveillance. Statistical shape theory is used to extract features, and then...