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CIDR
2011
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12 years 8 months ago
Crowdsourced Databases: Query Processing with People
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (“MTurk”) service allows users to post short tasks (“HITs”) that other users can receive a small amount of money for completing. Common tasks on...
Adam Marcus 0002, Eugene Wu 0002, Samuel Madden, R...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Cognos: crowdsourcing search for topic experts in microblogs
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Fabrí...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
200views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
AttentionAttractor: efficient video stream similarity query processing in real time
In a current project, customers are attracted by a video streaming application. A video camera records people passing by, and a monitor shows an alienated version of the setting a...
Ira Assent, Ralph Krieger, Thomas Seidl
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
AVI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
A Visual Tool for Querying Geographic Databases
To support users in querying geographic databases we have developed a system that lets people sketch what they are looking for. It closes the gap between user and information syst...
Andreas D. Blaser, Max J. Egenhofer