Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
—Many face recognition algorithms use “distance-based” methods: Feature vectors are extracted from each face and distances in feature space are compared to determine matches....
Simon Prince, Peng Li, Yun Fu, Umar Mohammed, Jame...
Aggregating search results from a variety of heterogeneous sources or verticals such as news, image and video into a single interface is a popular paradigm in web search. Although...
Ke Zhou, Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Joemon M. J...
We consider the problem of finding a few representatives for a dataset, i.e., a subset of data points that efficiently describes the entire dataset. We assume that each data poi...
A good model of object shape is essential in applications such as segmentation, object detection, inpainting and graphics. For example, when performing segmentation, local constra...