Burstiness, a phenomenon initially observed in text re-
trieval, is the property that a given visual element appears
more times in an image than a statistically independent
mode...
Data mining promises to discover valid and potentially useful patterns in data. Often, discovered patterns are not useful to the user. "Actionability" addresses this pro...
Although each iteration of the popular kMeans clustering heuristic scales well to larger problem sizes, it often requires an unacceptably-high number of iterations to converge to ...
In many retrieval tasks, one important goal involves retrieving a diverse set of results (e.g., documents covering a wide range of topics for a search query). First of all, this r...
In this paper we introduce StarZip, a multi-corpora lossless text compression utility which incorporates StarNT, our newly proposed transform algorithm. StarNT is a dictionary-base...