—The strategies for the preservation of historical documents can include their digitization, which is an effective way to make them publicly available while preventing degradatio...
We describe experimental results for unsupervised recognition of the textual contents of book-images using fully automatic mutual-entropy-based model adaptation. Each experiment s...
This paper presents a new approach to discriminative modeling for classi cation and labeling. Our method, called Boosting on Multilevel Aggregates (BMA), adds a new class of hiera...
Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
"Pattern recognition techniques are concerned with the theory and algorithms of putting abstract objects, e.g., measurements made on physical objects, into categories. Typical...