Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more comple...
This paper describes an integrated system for building a multiplanar model of the scene as the camera is localized on the fly. The core of this system is a robust and accurate pr...
This paper discusses aspects of topology as relevant for loop dynamics as they occur in physical modeling synthesis algorithms. Boundary and interaction point behavior is treated p...