The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fi...
e about image features can be expressed as a hierarchical structure called a Type Abstraction Hierarchy (TAH). TAHs can be generated automatically by clustering algorithms based on...
Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira
In the current information age, the dominant method for information search is by providing few keywords to a search engine. Keyword search is currently one of the most important o...
XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...