: The concept of natural neighbors employs the notion of distance to define local neighborhoods in discrete data. Especially when querying and accessing large scale data, it is im...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
In this paper, we describe a buzz-based recommender system based on a large source of queries in an eCommerce application. The system detects bursts in query trends. These bursts ...
We present an object recognition algorithm that uses model and image line features to locate complex objects in high clutter environments. Finding correspondences between model an...
At its heart, music information retrieval is characterized by the need to find the similarity between pieces of music. However, “similar” does not mean “the same”. Theref...