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KDD
2003
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Assessment and pruning of hierarchical model based clustering
The goal of clustering is to identify distinct groups in a dataset. The basic idea of model-based clustering is to approximate the data density by a mixture model, typically a mix...
Jeremy Tantrum, Alejandro Murua, Werner Stuetzle
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Active relevance feedback for difficult queries
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
TIT
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Arbitrary source models and Bayesian codebooks in rate-distortion theory
-- We characterize the best achievable performance of lossy compression algorithms operating on arbitrary random sources, and with respect to general distortion measures. Direct an...
Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Junshan Zhang
MM
2009
ACM
221views Multimedia» more  MM 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Using large-scale web data to facilitate textual query based retrieval of consumer photos
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
Yiming Liu, Dong Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Jiebo Luo
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A signal-to-noise approach to score normalization
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps