Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
Blogging has been an emerging media for people to express themselves. However, the presence of spam-blogs (also known as splogs) may reduce the value of blogs and blog search engi...
A simple stereo matching algorithm is proposed that visits only a small fraction of disparity space in order to find a semi-dense disparity map. It works by growing from a small s...
Selecting a random peer with uniform probability across a peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a fundamental function for unstructured search, data replication, and monitoring algorithms....
We present a new system, called Retimm, for searching databases made of documents containing images and text. Images are indexed by colour and texture distributions.. Colour and t...