: Commuting by car from home to work can be very time consuming. We have conducted a study to explore what people are doing, and want to do, while commuting. People use their time ...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
—This paper describes three new results for volume rendering algorithms utilizing splatting. First, an antialiasing extension to the basic splatting algorithm is introduced that ...
We consider {0, 1}n as a sample space with a probability measure on it, thus making pseudo-Boolean functions into random variables. We then derive explicit formulas for approximat...
Guoli Ding, Robert F. Lax, Jianhua Chen, Peter P. ...
In recent years, relevance feedback has been studied extensively as a way to improve performance of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Since users are usually unwilling to prov...
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Tie-Yan Liu, De-Sheng Wang...