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MM
2009
ACM
206views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive, selective, automatic tonal enhancement of faces
This paper presents an efficient, personalizable and yet completely automatic algorithm for enhancing the brightness, tonal balance, and contrast of faces in thumbnails of online...
Hrishikesh Aradhye, George Toderici, Jay Yagnik
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
AAAI
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Using a Geometric-Based Sketch Recognition Approach to Sketch Chinese Radicals
Unlike English, where unfamiliar words can be queried for its meaning by typing out its letters, the analogous operation in Chinese is far from trivial due to the nature of its wr...
Paul Taele, Tracy Hammond
KDD
2009
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing web traffic via the media scheduling problem
Website traffic varies through time in consistent and predictable ways, with highest traffic in the middle of the day. When providing media content to visitors, it is important to...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar
EPIA
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Adaptation to Drifting Concepts
Most of supervised learning algorithms assume the stability of the target concept over time. Nevertheless in many real-user modeling systems, where the data is collected over an ex...
Gladys Castillo, João Gama, Pedro Medas