The widespread use of templates on the Web is considered harmful for two main reasons. Not only do they compromise the relevance judgment of many web IR and web mining methods suc...
Karane Vieira, Altigran Soares da Silva, Nick Pint...
Many computer vision algorithms such as object tracking and event detection assume that a background model of the scene under analysis is known. However, in many practical circums...
The increasing use of large open-domain document sources is exacerbating the problem of ambiguity in named entities. This paper explores the use of a range of syntactic and semant...
We present a stochastic clustering algorithm which uses pairwise similarity of elements, based on a new graph theoretical algorithm for the sampling of cuts in graphs. The stochas...
In this paper, we address the problem of constrained segmentation of natural images, in which a human user places one seed point inside each object of interest in the image and th...