The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...
The maintenanceofmaterializedviews in largescale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources ISs, such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of in...
The idea of photometric stereo is to serially vary the direction of incident illumination on the state of the holded view point, but it can locally reconstruct only the front surf...
Deformable models are an attractive approach to recognizing nonrigid objects which have considerable within class variability. However, there are severe search problems associated...
Christopher K. I. Williams, Michael Revow, Geoffre...