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AUSAI
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Locating Regions of Interest in CBIR with Multi-instance Learning Techniques
In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), the user usually poses several labelled images and then the system attempts to retrieve all the images relevant to the target concept defi...
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Xiao-Bing Xue, Yuan Jiang
AUSAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive Enhancing of Fingerprint Image with Image Characteristics Analysis
The quality of the fingerprint images greatly affects the performance of the minutiae extraction. In order to improve the performance of the system, many researchers have been made...
Eun-Kyung Yun, Jin-Hyuk Hong, Sung-Bae Cho
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Applying Affective Tactics for a Better Learning
This paper describes the Mediating Agent, an animated pedagogical agent inserted in a computational system for distance learning, which has the goal of motivating the student to le...
Patrícia Augustin Jaques, Rosa Maria Vicari...
ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Active Learning for Robot Manipulation
Abstract— Learning techniques in robotic grasping applications have usually been concerned with the way a hand approaches to an object, or with improving the motor control of man...
Antonio Morales, Eris Chinellato, Andrew H. Fagg, ...
GLOBAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Performance Evaluation for Global Computation
Abstract. Global computing applications co-ordinate distributed computations across widely-dispersed hosts. Such systems present formidable design and implementation challenges to ...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Stephen Gilmore, Ja...