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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
An exploration of ranking heuristics in mobile local search
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Yuanhua Lv, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Qiang Wu
CLEF
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Visual Localization Using Global Visual Features and Vanishing Points
Abstract. This paper describes a visual localization approach for mobile robots. Robot localization is performed as location recognition. The approach uses global visual features (...
Olivier Saurer, Friedrich Fraundorfer, Marc Pollef...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Effective collection metasearch in a hierarchical environment: global vs. localized retrieval performance
We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
Jack G. Conrad, Changwen Yang, Joanne S. Claussen
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
135views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Inquiring of the Sights from the Web via Camera Mobiles
In this paper, we presented an image search service for mobile users. It can be used to acquire related information by taking and sending pictures to the server, for example, gett...
Yinghua Zhou, Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Yuchang Gong, Wei...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
184views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 5 months ago
Locally Adaptive Dimensionality Reduction for Indexing Large Time Series Databases
Similarity search in large time series databases has attracted much research interest recently. It is a difficult problem because of the typically high dimensionality of the data....
Eamonn J. Keogh, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehro...