Distance functions are an important component in many learning applications. However, the correct function is context dependent, therefore it is advantageous to learn a distance f...
Digital Preservation deals with the long-term storage, access, and maintenance of digital data objects. In order to prevent a loss of information, digital libraries and archives a...
Generative kernels represent theoretically grounded tools able to increase the capabilities of generative classification through a discriminative setting. Fisher Kernel is the fi...
Manuele Bicego, Marco Cristani, Vittorio Murino, E...
A huge amount of data and metadata emerges from Web 2.0 applications which have transformed the Web to a mass social interaction and collaboration medium. Collaborative Tagging Sy...
Eirini Giannakidou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Athena V...
We consider ranking and clustering problems related to the aggregation of inconsistent information. Ailon, Charikar, and Newman [1] proposed randomized constant factor approximatio...