This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
Image annotation has been an active research topic in the recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and web/database image search. In this paper...
Abstract--Image segmentation plays an important role in computer vision and image analysis. In this paper, image segmentation is formulated as a labeling problem under a probabilit...
Face identification is the problem of determining
whether two face images depict the same person or not.
This is difficult due to variations in scale, pose, lighting,
background...
Matthieu Guillaumin, Jakob Verbeek, Cordelia Schmi...
The performance of many supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms is very sensitive to the choice of an appropriate distance metric. Previous work in metric learning and ada...