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ICASSP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A scale transform based method for rhythmic similarity of music
This paper introduces scale transforms to measure rhythmic similarity between two musical pieces. The rhythm of a piece of music is described by the scale transform magnitude, com...
Andre Holzapfel, Yannis Stylianou
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Clustering Narrow-Domain Short Texts by Using the Kullback-Leibler Distance
Clustering short length texts is a difficult task itself, but adding the narrow domain characteristic poses an additional challenge for current clustering methods. We addressed thi...
David Pinto, José-Miguel Benedí, Pao...
ICCV
2001
IEEE
14 years 9 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
TKDE
2008
171views more  TKDE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Efficient Similarity Search in Nonmetric Spaces with Local Constant Embedding
Similarity-based search has been a key factor for many applications such as multimedia retrieval, data mining, Web search and retrieval, and so on. There are two important issues r...
Lei Chen 0002, Xiang Lian
COMBINATORICS
2004
81views more  COMBINATORICS 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
A Card Shuffling Analysis of Deformations of the Plancherel Measure of the Symmetric Group
This paper finds and analyzes a formula for the total variation distance between iterations of riffle shuffles and iterations of "cut and then riffle shuffle". This allo...
Jason E. Fulman