The bag-of-words representation has attracted a lot of attention recently in the field of object recognition. Based on the bag-of-words representation, topic models such as Probab...
In this paper we examine 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used especially for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual re...
We present a method for acquiring ontological knowledge using search query logs. We first use query logs to identify important contexts associated with terms belonging to a semant...
Document collections evolve over time, new topics emerge and old ones decline. At the same time, the terminology evolves as well. Much literature is devoted to topic evolution in ...
The dynamic texture (DT) is a probabilistic generative model, defined over space and time, that represents a video as the output of a linear dynamical system (LDS). The DT model ...