Query auto completion is known to provide poor predictions of the user’s query when her input prefix is very short (e.g., one or two characters). In this paper we show that con...
We consider the problem of estimating the relative orientation of a number of individual photocells -or pixels- that hold fixed relative positions. The photocells measure the inte...
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is currently limited because of the lack of representational power of the low-level image features, which fail to properly represent the actual...
Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
The field of information retrieval has traditionallyfocused on s consistingof titlesand abstracts. As a consequence, many underlying assumptions must be altered for retrieval fro...