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INFOSCALE
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A distributed incremental nearest neighbor algorithm
Searching for non-text data (e.g., images) is mostly done by means of metadata annotations or by extracting the text close to the data. However, supporting real content-based audi...
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro, Fausto Rabitti, ...
DICTA
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Texture Descriptors via Stable Distributions
In this paper, we present a texture descriptor which hinges in the use of the local image statistics so as to recover a compact representation of the texture under study. To this ...
Pattaraporn Khuwuthyakorn, Antonio Robles-Kelly, J...
SIAMJO
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
An Active-Set Newton Method for Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints
For a mathematical program with complementarity constraints (MPCC), we propose an active-set Newton method, which has the property of local quadratic convergence under the MPCC lin...
Alexey F. Izmailov, Mikhail V. Solodov
TOG
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
A photometric approach for estimating normals and tangents
This paper presents a technique for acquiring the shape of realworld objects with complex isotropic and anisotropic reflectance. Our method estimates the local normal and tangent ...
Michael Holroyd, Jason Lawrence, Greg Humphreys, T...
PVLDB
2008
163views more  PVLDB 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
AlvisP2P: scalable peer-to-peer text retrieval in a structured P2P network
In this paper we present the AlvisP2P IR engine, which enables efficient retrieval with multi-keyword queries from a global document collection available in a P2P network. In such...
Toan Luu, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Fabius Klemm, Maroje Pu...