In this paper, we investigate the process of searching for images of specified people in the consumer family photo domain. This domain is very different from the controlled enviro...
Andrew C. Gallagher, Madirakshi Das, Alexander C. ...
We consider the problem of determining functions of an image of an object that are insensitive to illumination changes. We rst show that for an object with Lambertian r e e ctanc ...
Hansen F. Chen, Peter N. Belhumeur, David W. Jacob...
We study the following problem: how to efficiently find in a collection of strings those similar to a given query string? Various similarity functions can be used, such as edit dis...
XKeyword provides efficient keyword proximity queries on large XML graph databases. A query is simply a list of keywords and does not require any schema or query language knowledg...
Generating good, production-quality plans is an essential element in transforming planners from research tools into real-world applications, but one that has been frequently overl...