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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Scene Text Extraction Using Focus of Mobile Camera
Robust extraction of text from scene images is essential for successful scene text recognition. Scene images usually have non-uniform illumination, complex background, and existen...
Egyul Kim, SeongHun Lee, JinHyung Kim
CORR
2006
Springer
148views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 2 months ago
Budget Optimization in Search-Based Advertising Auctions
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users' search queries via an auction. While there has been previous work on the auction process and its game-theor...
Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Martin Pál, ...
AIR
2004
98views more  AIR 2004»
15 years 2 months ago
Further Experiments on Collaborative Ranking in Community-Based Web Search
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
ECAI
1998
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Knowledge-theoretic Approach to Distributed Problem Solving
Traditional approaches to distributed problem solving have treated the problem as one of distributed search. In this paper, we propose an alternative, logic-based view of distribut...
Michael Wooldridge
EOR
2010
104views more  EOR 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
New solution methods for single machine bicriteria scheduling problem: Minimization of average flowtime and number of tardy jobs
We consider the bicriteria scheduling problem of minimizing the number of tardy jobs and average flowtime on a single machine. This problem, which is known to be NP-hard, is impor...
Fatih Safa Erenay, Ihsan Sabuncuoglu, Aysegül...