The performance of traditional image retrieval approaches remains unsatisfactory, as they are restricted by the wellknown semantic gap and the diversity of textual semantics. To t...
Chuanghua Gui, Jing Liu, Changsheng Xu, Hanqing Lu
A common statistical problem is that of nding the median element in a set of data. This paper presents a fastand portable parallel algorithm for nding the median given a set of el...
The problem we address in this paper is the role of context in the interpretation of images when pictures are used as queries. An image usually depicts several objects and is open...
As multithreaded server applications and runtime systems prevail, garbage collection is becoming an essential feature to support high performance systems. The fundamental issue of...
Modern scientific collaborations have opened up the opportunity of solving complex problems that involve multidisciplinary expertise and large-scale computational experiments. The...
Chee Sun Liew, Malcolm P. Atkinson, Jano I. van He...