Relevance feedback, which traditionally uses the terms in the relevant documents to enrich the user's initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performanc...
Kernel functions are typically viewed as providing an implicit mapping of points into a high-dimensional space, with the ability to gain much of the power of that space without inc...
As the consequence of semantic gap, visual similarity does not guarantee semantic similarity, which in general is conflicting with the inherent assumption of many generativebased ...
Histograms are used in almost every aspect of computer vi-4 4 sion, from visual descriptors to image representations. Histogram Inter-5 5 section Kernel (HIK) and SVM classifiers ...
Compiler writers have crafted many heuristics over the years to approximately solve NP-hard problems efficiently. Finding a heuristic that performs well on a broad range of applic...
Mark Stephenson, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Martin C. M...