Similarity search is a fundamental operation for applications that deal with unstructured data sources. In this paper we propose a new pivot-based method for similarity search, ca...
RankSVM (Herbrich et al, 2000; Joachims, 2002) is a pairwise method for designing ranking models. SVMLight is the only publicly available software for RankSVM. It is slow and, due ...
—Evaluating and quantifying trust stimulates collaboration in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Many existing reputation systems sharply divide the trust value into right or wrong...
In this paper, we present a novel maximum correlation sample subspace method and apply it to human face detection [1] in still images. The algorithm starts by projecting all the t...
This paper demonstrates the applicability of the recently proposed supervised dimension reduction, hierarchical linear discriminant analysis (h-LDA) to a well-known spatial locali...