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ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 29 days ago
Robust region-based background subtraction and shadow removing using color and gradient information
In this paper, a novel algorithm for foreground detection and shadow removal is presented. The proposed method employs a region-based approach by processing two foregrounds result...
Mohammad Izadi, Parvaneh Saeedi
HICSS
2006
IEEE
114views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
16 years 17 days ago
Detecting Document Genre for Personalization of Information Retrieval
We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
RoLo: A Rotated Logging Storage Architecture for Enterprise Data Centers
Abstract—We propose RoLo (Rotated Logging), a new logging architecture for RAID10 systems for enhanced energy efficiency, performance and reliability. By spreading destaging I/O...
Yinliang Yue, Lei Tian, Hong Jiang, Fang Wang, Dan...
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
16 years 27 days ago
AVERT: Adaptive SerVicE and Route Discovery ProTocol for MANETs
—In the past few years there has been increasing research interest in service discovery protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET). The most promising approaches so far address...
Christopher N. Ververidis, George C. Polyzos
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Exploration of query context for information retrieval
A number of existing information retrieval systems propose the notion of query context to combine the knowledge of query and user into retrieval to reveal the most exact descripti...
Keke Cai, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Peng Huang, Zhimin...