We introduce ImageMap, as a method for indexing and similarity searching in Image DataBases (IDBs). ImageMap answers "queries by example", involving any number of object...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Christos Faloutsos, King...
For almost a decade, Content-Based Image Retrieval has been an active research area, yet one fundamental problem remains largely unsolved: how to measure perceptual similarity. To...
This paper discusses about how business intelligence on a website could be obtained from users’ access records instead of web logs of “hits”. Users’ access records are cap...
We propose a data-mining approach that produces generalized query patterns (with generalized keywords) from the raw user logs of the Microsoft Encarta search engine (http://encart...
Charles X. Ling, Jianfeng Gao, Huajie Zhang, Weini...
In the presence of a heavy-tail noise distribution, regression becomes much more di cult. Traditional robust regression methods assume that the noise distribution is symmetric and...