Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
The objective of this work is classifying texture from a single image under unknown lighting conditions. The current and successful approach to this task is to treat it as a stati...
With the proliferation of camera phones, new information retrieval applications will emerge. The image of a scene captured by a camera phone can be a query to a remote server to i...
We present a novel method to enhance training set for face detection with nonlinearly generated examples from the original data. The motivation is from Support Vector Machines (SV...
Distance metric learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction are two interesting and active topics in recent years. However, the connection between them is not thoroughly studi...