We develop a penalized kernel smoothing method for the problem of selecting nonzero elements of the conditional precision matrix, known as conditional covariance selection. This p...
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to select representative face samples (models) from raw videos and build an appearance-based face recognition system. The approa...
—Reduced Resolution Update (RRU) video coding provides a better compression performance than H.264/AVC does. It is implemented by encoding the predicted residuals after downsampl...
Qiang Hao, Xiangyang Ji, Qingming Huang, Debin Zha...
Unsolicited and undesirable e-mail (spam) is a growing problem for Internet users and service providers. We present the Secure Internet Content Selection (SICS) protocol, an effic...
Semantic Query Optimisation makes use of the semantic knowledge of a database (rules) to perform query transformation. Rules are normally learned from former queries fired by the u...