The major scientific problem for content-based video retrieval is the semantic gap. Generally speaking, there are two appropriate ways to bridge the semantic gap: the first one is...
Lei Bao, Juan Cao, Yongdong Zhang, Jintao Li, Ming...
This paper describes the participation of Columbus Project of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in the GeoCLEF 2006 (a cross-language geographical retrieval track which is part of Cr...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
Often scientists seek to search for articles on the Web related to a particular chemical. When a scientist searches for a chemical formula using a search engine today, she gets ar...
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...