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MICCAI
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Extracting Features from Tactile Maps
Tactile imaging is a newly developed mechanical sensing technology for documenting the properties of hard lumps contained in soft tissue. An examiner strokes a scan head across tis...
Parris S. Wellman, Robert D. Howe
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Hardware-friendly descreening
Conventional electrophotographic printers tend to produce Moir´e artifacts when used for printing images scanned from printed material such as books and magazines. We propose a n...
Hasib Siddiqui, Mireille Boutin, Charles A. Bouman
JMLR
2012
11 years 10 months ago
Bounding the Probability of Error for High Precision Optical Character Recognition
We consider a model for which it is important, early in processing, to estimate some variables with high precision, but perhaps at relatively low recall. If some variables can be ...
Gary B. Huang, Andrew Kae, Carl Doersch, Erik G. L...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...