This article explores how to develop complex data driven user models that go beyond the bag of words model and topical relevance. We propose to learn from rich user specific info...
This paper considers the problem of distributed scalable coding of correlated sources that are communicated to a central unit. The general setting is typically encountered in sens...
In this paper, the recognition of the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of meeting participants (as defined by their eye gaze direction) from their head pose is addressed. To this ...
Abstract. Search is until now a difficult problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing systems. In this paper, we propose to use adaptive metadata spreading to make search in P2P netw...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Ming Chen, Yongwei Wu
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...