A novel kernel discriminant transformation (KDT) algorithm based on the concept of canonical differences is presented for automatic face recognition applications. For each individu...
Wen-Sheng Vincent Chu, Ju-Chin Chen, Jenn-Jier Jam...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
We report on a study that was undertaken to better identify users' goals behind web search queries by using click through data. Based on user logs which contain over 80 millio...
Text summarization is a data reduction process. The use of text summarization enables users to reduce the amount of text that must be read while still assimilating the core inform...
Lawrence H. Reeve, Hyoil Han, Saya V. Nagori, Jona...
Clustering validation is a long standing challenge in the clustering literature. While many validation measures have been developed for evaluating the performance of clustering al...