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AVBPA
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Fingerprint Quality Indices for Predicting Authentication Performance
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...
Yi Chen, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
ISMIS
1997
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs
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
CIIT
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Speeding up keyword search for search engines
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...
Sanjay Baberwal, Ben Choi
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Compressing and searching XML data via two zips
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...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Effective top-k computation in retrieving structured documents with term-proximity support
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...
Mingjie Zhu, Shuming Shi, Mingjing Li, Ji-Rong Wen