The main goal of this research is to improve Information Retrieval Systems by enabling them to generate search outcomes that are relevant and customized to each specific user. Our ...
Matching local features across images is often useful when comparing or recognizing objects or scenes, and efficient techniques for obtaining image-to-image correspondences have b...
Since it is hard to handcraft the prior knowledge in a shape detection framework, machine learning methods are preferred to exploit the expert annotation of the target shape in a d...
Yefeng Zheng, Xiang Sean Zhou, Bogdan Georgescu, S...
In this paper, we study a new type of spatial query, Nearest Surrounder (NS), which searches the nearest surrounding spatial objects around a query point. NS query can be more use...
State of the art web search applications allow the user to aggregate information from many sources. Because of this, users are confronted with having to assess the reliability of ...
Alia Amin, Junte Zhang, Henriette S. M. Cramer, Ly...