Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
When the appearances of the tracked object and surrounding background change during tracking, fixed feature space tends to cause tracking failure. To address this problem, we prop...
In this paper, we present two novel memetic algorithms (MAs) for gene selection. Both are synergies of Genetic Algorithm (wrapper methods) and local search methods (filter methods...
Blog post opinion retrieval is the problem of identifying posts which express an opinion about a particular topic. Usually the problem is solved using a 3 step process in which rel...
In digital libraries image retrieval queries can be based on the similarity of objects, using several feature attributes like shape, texture, color or text. Such multi-feature que...