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VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Indexing Multimedia for the Internet
Brian S. Eberman, Blair Fidler, Robert A. Iannucci...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Highly Discriminative Invariant FEatures for Image Matching
Abstract. In this paper, we present novel image-derived, invariant features that accurately capture both the geometric and color properties of an imaged object. These features can ...
Ronald-Bryan O. Alferez, Yuan-Fang Wang
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Visual Presentations in Multimedia Learning: Conditions that Overload Visual Working Memory
How should we design visual presentations to explain how a complex system works? One promising approach involves multimedia presentation of explanations in visual and verbal format...
Roxana Moreno, Richard E. Mayer
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
CoBWeb - A Crawler for the Brazilian Web
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Top-down Extraction of Semi-Structured Data
In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to extracting semi-structured data from Web sources. The idea is to collect a couple of example objects from the user and to use t...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Alberto H. F. Laender, A...
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Customizable Collaborative Virtual Environment on the Web
Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) support the collaboration, communication and social interaction among users in virtual spaces. In this paper we present a customizable CVE...
Roberto C. Portugal, Luis A. Guerrero, David A. Fu...
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Effects of Term Segmentation on Chinese/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval
The majority of recent Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) research has focused on European languages. CLIR problems that involve East Asian languages such as Chinese intr...
Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Linear Time Sorting of Skewed Distributions
This work presents an e cient linear average time algorithm to sort lists of integers that follow skewed distributions. It also studies a particular case where the list follows th...
Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Nivio Zivi...
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Flexible Communication Support for CSCW Applications
Modern computer-supported cooperative work applications (CSCW) supporting same-time/different-place interaction are required to open several communication channels. Each of these ...
Hugo Miranda, Luís Rodrigues
SPIRE
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Cross-Domain Approximate String Matching
Approximate string matching is an important paradigm in domains ranging from speech recognition to information retrieval and molecular biology. In this paper, we introduce a new f...
Daniel P. Lopresti, Gordon T. Wilfong