: Hard metrics are the class of extremal metrics with respect to embedding into Euclidean spaces: they incur Ω(logn) multiplicative distortion, which is as large as it can possib...
— We propose a hierarchical approach to document categorization that requires no pre-configuration and maps the semantic document space to a predefined taxonomy. The utilizatio...
Robert Wetzker, Tansu Alpcan, Christian Bauckhage,...
Space requirement for storing indexes and performance for query processing are two critical issues in music information retrieval (MIR) system. To overcome difficulties in variabl...
— Mobile robot localization and navigation requires a map - the robot’s internal representation of the environment. A common problem is that path planning becomes very ineffic...
This work introduces a new compression scheme for point sets. This scheme relies on an adaptive binary space partition (BSP) which takes into account the geometric structure of the...