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ECCV
2004
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Characterization of Human Faces under Illumination Variations Using Rank, Integrability, and Symmetry Constraints
Photometric stereo algorithms use a Lambertian reflectance model with a varying albedo field and involve the appearances of only one object. This paper extends photometric stereo a...
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Rama Chellappa, David W. Jacob...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling multi-level relevance feedback on pubmed by integrating rank learning into DBMS
Background: Finding relevant articles from PubMed is challenging because it is hard to express the user’s specific intention in the given query interface, and a keyword query ty...
Hwanjo Yu, Taehoon Kim, Jinoh Oh, Ilhwan Ko, Sungc...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A pruning-based approach for supporting Top-K join queries
An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Jie Liu, Liang Feng, Yunpeng Xing
WISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Peer-Sensitive ObjectRank - Valuing Contextual Information in Social Networks
Building on previous work on how to model contextual information for desktop search and how to implement semantically rich information exchange in social networks, we define a new...
Andrei Damian, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu
CBMS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Merging Healthcare Ontologies: Inconsistency Tolerance and Implementation Issues
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent...
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kenned...