This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...
Background: Motif discovery aims to detect short, highly conserved patterns in a collection of unaligned DNA or protein sequences. Discriminative motif finding algorithms aim to i...
We present a new adaptive algorithm for automatic detection of text from a natural scene. The initial cues of text regions are first detected from the captured image/video. An ada...
This paper presents an exploratory study of ten feature location techniques that use various combinations of textual, dynamic, and static analyses. Unlike previous studies, the ap...
In this paper, we present a binarization technique specifically designed for historical document images. Existing methods for this problem focus on either finding a good global th...