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ICIP
2001
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
A face and gesture recognition system based on an active stereo sensor
The paper presents several novel 3D image analysis algorithms, applied towards the segmentation and modeling of faces and hands. These are subsequently used to build a face-based ...
Sotiris Malassiotis, Filareti Tsalakanidou, Nikola...
EDBT
2008
ACM
137views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
Synthesizing structured text from logical database subsets
In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis Alexandra...
CIKM
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Effective top-k computation in retrieving structured documents with term-proximity support
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi, Mingjing Li, Ji-Rong Wen
DAGSTUHL
2009
15 years 8 months ago
Learning Highly Structured Manifolds: Harnessing the Power of SOMs
Abstract. In this paper we elaborate on the challenges of learning manifolds that have many relevant clusters, and where the clusters can have widely varying statistics. We call su...
Erzsébet Merényi, Kadim Tasdemir, Li...
PKDD
2009
Springer
135views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Syntactic Structural Kernels for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases
A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...
Alessandra Giordani, Alessandro Moschitti