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ICCV
2001
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
The Earth Mover's Distance is the Mallows Distance: Some Insights from Statistics
The Earth Mover's distance was first introduced as a purely empirical way to measure texture and color similarities. We show that it has a rigorous probabilistic interpretati...
Elizaveta Levina, Peter J. Bickel
QEST
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the Impact of Modelling Choices for Distributed Information Spread
—We consider a distributed shuffling algorithm for sharing data in a distributed network. Nodes executing the algorithm periodically contact each other and exchange data. The be...
Rena Bakhshi, Ansgar Fehnker
IJCV
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Tracking with Exemplars in a Metric Space
Abstract. A new, exemplar-based, probabilistic paradigm for visual tracking is presented. Probabilistic mechanisms are attractive because they handle fusion of information, especia...
Kentaro Toyama, Andrew Blake
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On domain similarity and effectiveness of adapting-to-rank
Adapting to rank address the the problem of insufficient domainspecific labeled training data in learning to rank. However, the initial study shows that adaptation is not always...
Keke Chen, Jing Bai, Srihari Reddy, Belle L. Tseng
ASWC
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Merging and Ranking Answers in the Semantic Web: The Wisdom of Crowds
In this paper we propose algorithms for combining and ranking answers from distributed heterogeneous data sources in the context of a multi-ontology Question Answering task. Our pr...
Vanessa Lopez, Andriy Nikolov, Miriam Ferná...