Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
Streaming user-generated content in the form of blogs, microblogs, forums, and multimedia sharing sites, provides a rich source of data from which invaluable information and insig...
We provide a necessary and sufficient condition under which a convex set is approachable in a game with partial monitoring, i.e. where players do not observe their opponents’ mo...
A new method for scale-aware saliency detection is introduced in this work. Scale determination is realized through a fast scale-space algorithm using color and texture. Scale inf...
— A new decoding algorithm, referred to as Min-Sum with Adaptive Message Control (AMC-MS), is proposed to reduce the decoding complexity of nonbinary LDPC codes. The proposed alg...