Query-independent features (also called document priors), such as the number of incoming links to a document, its Page-Rank, or the type of its associated URL, have been successfu...
The matching and retrieval of 2D shapes is an important
challenge in computer vision. A large number of shape
similarity approaches have been developed, with the main
focus bein...
Xingwei Yang (Temple University), Suzan Koknar-Tez...
There is an emerging market interest in service provisioning over dense Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), i.e., limited spatial regions, such as shopping malls, airports, and unive...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Eugenio Magistr...
We consider the problem of learning a mapping function from low-level feature space to high-level semantic space. Under the assumption that the data lie on a submanifold embedded ...
A great number of documents are scanned and archived in the form of digital images in digital libraries, to make them available and accessible in the Internet. Information retriev...