Informally, an obfuscator O is an efficient, probabilistic “compiler” that transforms a program P into a new program O(P) with the same functionality as P, but such that O(P)...
User clicks on a URL in response to a query are extremely useful predictors of the URL's relevance to that query. Exact match click features tend to suffer from severe data s...
Huihsin Tseng, Longbin Chen, Fan Li, Ziming Zhuang...
Abstract. Efficient nearest neighbor (NN) search techniques for highdimensional data are crucial to content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Traditional data structures (e.g., kd-tree...
Pengcheng Wu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Duc Dung Nguyen, Y...
Existing tools require end-user programmers (EUPs) to write regular expressions ("regexps") or even scripts to validate textual inputs, which is slow and error-prone. We...
We provide an overview of spline and wavelet techniques with an emphasis on applications in pattern recognition. The presentation is divided in three parts. In the first one, we ar...