The task of selecting information and rendering it appropriately appears in multiple contexts in summarization. In this paper we present a model that simultaneously optimizes sele...
The top-k similarity joins have been extensively studied and used
in a wide spectrum of applications such as information retrieval, decision
making, spatial data analysis and dat...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
We propose a novel approach to understanding
activities from their partial observations monitored through
multiple non-overlapping cameras separated by unknown time
gaps. In our...
How should we design visual presentations to explain how a complex system works? One promising approach involves multimedia presentation of explanations in visual and verbal format...