Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in tra...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Many real world applications such as sensor networks and other monitoring applications naturally generate probabilistic streams that are highly correlated in both time and space. ...
Abstract-- We propose a new method for automatically accessing an internet database of 3D models that are searchable only by their user-annotated labels, for using them for vision ...
The modeling of high level semantic events from low level sensor signals is important in order to understand distributed phenomena. For such content-modeling purposes, transformat...