Chord is a protocol to distribute and retrieve information at large scale. It builds a large but rigid overlay network without taking into account the social nature and the underl...
—We analyze how node mobility can influence the convergence time of averaging gossip algorithms on networks. Our main result is that even a small number of fully mobile nodes ca...
Graph cuts based interactive segmentation has become very popular over the last decade. In standard graph cuts, the extraction of foreground object in a complex background often le...
Abstract. Bag-of-words model (BOW) is inspired by the text classification problem, where a document is represented by an unsorted set of contained words. Analogously, in the objec...
Mehdi Mirza-Mohammadi, Sergio Escalera, Petia Rade...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...