Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...
In this paper, a novel framework for face recognition, namely Selective Ensemble of Image Regions (SEIR), is proposed. In this framework, all possible regions in the face image are...
In this paper, a face pose estimation method and its application in video shot selection for face image preprocessing is introduced. The pose estimator is learned by a boosting re...
Bo Wu, Haizhou Ai, Lianhong Cai, Shihong Lao, Zhig...
This paper presents the novel task of best topic word selection, that is the selection of the topic word that is the best label for a given topic, as a means of enhancing the inte...
Jey Han Lau, David Newman, Sarvnaz Karimi, Timothy...
A robust learning-based TV commercial detection approach is proposed in this paper. Firstly a set of basic features that facilitate distinguishing commercials from general program...