A variety of information extraction techniques rely on the fact that instances of the same relation are "distributionally similar," in that they tend to appear in simila...
Image annotation, the task of automatically generating description words for a picture, is a key component in various image search and retrieval applications. Creating image datab...
The tree sequence based translation model allows the violation of syntactic boundaries in a rule to capture non-syntactic phrases, where a tree sequence is a contiguous sequence o...
2.5D building reconstruction aims at creating building models composed of complex roofs and vertical walls. In this paper, we define 2.5D building topology as a set of roof featu...
We present a novel technique to accurately map the complete field-of-coverage of a camera to its pan-tilt space in an efficient manner. This camera model enables mapping the coordi...