Object models based on bag-of-words representations can achieve state-of-the-art performance for image classification and object localization tasks. However, as they consider obje...
Perspective distortion always occurs while scanning thick, bound documents. This distortion mainly causes two sources of degradation for the scanned grayscale image ? i) shade alo...
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...
In October 2004 the University of Lugano in southern Switzerland established a new faculty of informatics. Its founding principles are innovation in teaching and faculty participa...
Michele Lanza, Amy L. Murphy, Romain Robbes, Mirce...
We introduce XPORT, a profile-driven distributed data dissemination system that supports an extensible set of data types, profile types, and optimization metrics. XPORT efficientl...