Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
This paper aims to demonstrate that the principles of adaptation and user modeling, especially social annotation, can be integrated fruitfully with those of the Web 2.0 paradigm a...
Partially occluded faces are common in many applications
of face recognition. While algorithms based on sparse
representation have demonstrated promising results, they
achieve t...
Zihan Zhou, Andrew Wagner, Hossein Mobahi, John Wr...
Visual surveillance applications such as object identification, object tracking, and anomaly detection require reliable motion detection as an initial processing step. Such a dete...