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ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
KDD
2002
ACM
286views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
Object Boundary Detection For Ontology-Based Image Classification
Technology in the field of digital media generates huge amounts of non-textual information, audio, video, and images, along with more familiar textual information. The potential f...
Lei Wang, Latifur Khan, Casey Breen
STOC
2007
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Reordering buffers for general metric spaces
In the reordering buffer problem, we are given an input sequence of requests for service each of which corresponds to a point in a metric space. The cost of serving the requests h...
Matthias Englert, Harald Räcke, Matthias West...
STOC
2003
ACM
171views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
14 years 7 months ago
Primal-dual meets local search: approximating MST's with nonuniform degree bounds
We present a new bicriteria approximation algorithm for the degree-bounded minimum-cost spanning tree problem: Given an undirected graph with nonnegative edge weights and degree b...
Jochen Könemann, R. Ravi
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
166views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 7 months ago
Substructure Similarity Search in Graph Databases
Advanced database systems face a great challenge raised by the emergence of massive, complex structural data in bioinformatics, chem-informatics, and many other applications. The ...
Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, Jiawei Han