We study the novel problem of efficiently computing the update distance for a pair of relational databases. In analogy to the edit distance of strings, we define the update distan...
Abstract. We propose a graph based method to improve the performance of person queries in large news video collections. The method benefits from the multi-modal structure of videos...
This paper describes our approach to the 2006 Adhoc Monolingual Information Retrieval run for French. The goal of our experiment was to compare the performance of a proposed stati...
The null space-based LDA takes full advantage of the null space while the other methods remove the null space. It proves to be optimal in performance. From the theoretical analysi...
The ability to detect a persons unconstrained hand in a natural video sequence has applications in sign language, gesture recognition and HCI. This paper presents a novel, unsuper...