Demographic information plays an important role in personalized web applications. However, it is usually not easy to obtain this kind of personal data such as age and gender. In t...
As the competition of Web search market increases, there is a high demand for personalized Web search to conduct retrieval incorporating Web users' information needs. This pa...
Inference of latent variables from complicated data is one important problem in data mining. The high dimensionality and high complexity of real world data often make accurate infe...
Data sharing between two organizations is common in many application areas e.g. business planing or marketing. Useful global patterns can be discovered from the integrated dataset...
We present VideoPot, a desktop video search system designed for digital video files stored on personal computers. The core metric of this system is based on video-indexing techno...
Hidenobu Nagata, Dan Mikami, Shozo Azuma, Masashi ...