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JASIS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2002
ACM
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
CORR
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Springer
We define the concept of dependence among multiple variables using maximum entropy techniques and introduce a graphical notation to denote the dependencies. Direct inference of in...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2010
IEEE
In this paper, we present an appearance-based method for person re-identification. It consists in the extraction of features that model three complementary aspects of the human ap...
SASO
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
An optimal sensor layout is attained when a limited number of sensors are placed in an area such that the cost of the placement is minimised while the value of the obtained inform...