In this paper, a Bayesian LBP operator is proposed. This operator is formulated in a novel Filtering, Labeling and Statistic (FLS) framework for texture descriptors. In the framew...
We present a Modular Bilinear Disciminant Analysis (MBDA) approach for face recognition. A set of classifiers are trained independently on specific face regions, and different c...
Relational database systems are increasingly used to manage XML documents, especially for data-centric XML. In this paper we present a new approach to efficiently manage document-c...
Of the many tuning parameters available in a database management system (DBMS), one of the most crucial to performance is the buffer pool size. Choosing an appropriate size, howev...
Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent bene ts for retrieval performance, and it is di...