Common measures of term importance in information retrieval (IR) rely on counts of term frequency; rare terms receive higher weight in document ranking than common terms receive. ...
— This paper presents a novel image based detection method for pedestrians at very small scales (between 16 x 20 and 32 x 40). We propose a set of new distinctive image features ...
Luciano Spinello, A. Macho, Rudolph Triebel, Rolan...
This investigation aims at finding an optimal way of measuring the similarity of melodies. The applicability for an automated analysis and classification was tested on a folk song...
The focus of research on query performance prediction is to predict the effectiveness of a query given a search system and a collection of documents. If the performance of queries...
Focussed XML component retrieval is one of the most important challenges in the XML IR field. The aim of the focussed retrieval strategy is to find the most exhaustive and specifi...