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The observation models in tracking algorithms are critical to both tracking performance and applicable scenarios but are often simplified to focus on fixed level of certain target...
Computer vision tasks often require the robust fit of a model to some data. In a robust fit, two major steps should be taken: i) robustly estimate the parameters of a model, and ii...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Web 2.0 applications like Flickr, YouTube, or Del.icio.us are increasingly popular online communities for creating, editing and sharing content. However, the rapid increase in siz...