Topical noise in blogs arises when bloggers digress from the central topical thrust of their blogs. We introduce a method to explicitly incorporate a model of topical noise into a...
The Web N-gram Workshop was held on July 23, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland, in conjunction with the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. The workshop brought together leaders in inform...
Chengxiang Zhai, Kuansan Wang, David Yarowsky, Ste...
Precise automated video search is gaining in importance as the amount of multimedia information is increasing at exponential rates. One of the drawbacks that make video retrieval ...
Abstract. A vision based head tracking approach is presented, combining foreground information with an elliptical head model based on the integration of gradient and skin-color inf...
This paper addresses Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), focusing on developing a hidden semantic concept discovery methodology to address effective semanticsintensive image ret...