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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
Dealing with verbose (or long) queries poses a new challenge for information retrieval. Selecting a subset of the original query (a "sub-query") has been shown to be an ...
Xiaobing Xue, Samuel Huston, W. Bruce Croft
WSCG
2003
101views more  WSCG 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Probability Estimation for People Detection
This paper presents a probability method for detecting people in a static image. We simplify people as a torso and four limbs. The torso is fitted by a quadrangle, and each limb i...
Qingjie Sun, Enhua Wu
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
157views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2009»
13 years 7 months ago
Visual activity context for focus of attention estimation in dynamic meetings
We address the problem of recognizing, in dynamic meetings in which people do not remain seated all the time, the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of seated people from their head...
Sileye O. Ba, Hayley Hung, Jean-Marc Odobez
SCALESPACE
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
3D Object Recognition by Eigen-Scale-Space of Contours
People often recognize 3D objects by their boundary shape. Designing an algorithm for such a task is interesting and useful for retrieving objects from a shape database. In this pa...
Tim K. Lee, Mark S. Drew