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ICCV
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Contextual Weighting for Vocabulary Tree based Image Retrieval
In this paper we address the problem of image retrieval from millions of database images. We improve the vocabulary tree based approach by introducing contextual weighting of loca...
Xiaoyu Wang, Ming Yang, Timothee Cour, Shenghuo Zh...
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
YouPivot: improving recall with contextual search
According to cognitive science literature, human memory is predicated on contextual cues (e.g., room, music) in the environment. During recall tasks, we associate information/acti...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Andrew Warr,...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of 'okay'
We examine the effect of contextual and acoustic cues in the disambiguation of three discourse-pragmatic functions of the word okay. Results of a perception study show that contex...
Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Hector Chave...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Visual focus of attention estimation from head pose posterior probability distributions
We address the problem of recognizing the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of meeting participants from their head pose and contextual cues. The main contribution of the paper is ...
Sileye O. Ba, Jean-Marc Odobez