Reachability queries on large directed graphs have attracted much attention recently. The existing work either uses spanning structures, such as chains or trees, to compress the c...
One of the major problems in modeling natural signals is that signals with very similar structure may locally have completely different measurements, e.g., images taken under diff...
The aim of this work is to index images in domain specific databases using colors computed from the object of interest only, instead of the whole image. The main problem in this t...
Subspace learning techniques are widespread in pattern recognition research. They include PCA, ICA, LPP, etc. These techniques are generally linear and unsupervised. The problem o...
Electronic mail poses a number of unusual challenges for the design of information retrieval systems and test collections, including informal expression, conversational structure,...