In this paper, we investigate technical methods to deal with exceptions, inconsistencies, and ambiguity. Existing reason maintenance systems are only suitable for some of these pr...
In visual processing the ability to deal with missing and noisy information is crucial. Occlusions and unreliable feature detectors often lead to situations where little or no dir...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
We present an interactive technique for the registration of captured images of elastic and rigid body parts in which the user is given flexible control over material specific de...
Fitting statistical models is a widely employed technique for the segmentation of medical images. While this approach gives impressive results for simple structures, shape models a...