Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named `Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as `Canada', `Brazil' and `China' ar...
Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0...
We introduce ImageMap, as a method for indexing and similarity searching in Image DataBases (IDBs). ImageMap answers "queries by example", involving any number of object...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Christos Faloutsos, King...
XTCcmp, the XQuery Compiler of a native XML database system, extends Starburst's well-known Query Graph Model to serve as an internal representation and basis for query restr...
We study the problem of image denoising where images are assumed to be samples from low dimensional (sub)manifolds. We propose the algorithm of locally linear denoising. The algor...
Convexity represents an important principle of grouping in visual perceptual organization. This paper presents a new technique for contour grouping based on convexity and has the f...