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ICDE
2011
IEEE
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Methods for boosting recommender systems
—Online shopping has grown rapidly over the past few years. Besides the convenience of shopping directly from ones home, an important advantage of e-commerce is the great variety...
Rubi Boim, Tova Milo
CVPR
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Nonlocal Matting
This work attempts to considerably reduce the amount of user effort in the natural image matting problem. The key observation is that the nonlocal principle, introduced to denoise...
Philip Lee, Ying Wu
CORR
2011
Springer
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A Personalized System for Conversational Recommendations
Searching for and making decisions about information is becoming increasingly difficult as the amount of information and number of choices increases. Recommendation systems help ...
Mehmet H. Göker, Pat Langley, Cynthia A. Thom...
TWC
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Joint power allocation and relay selection for multiuser cooperative communication
User cooperation, whereby multiple users share their antennas and transmit to a common destination in a collaborative manner, has been shown to be an effective way to achieve spat...
Kanchan G. Vardhe, Daryl Reynolds, Brian D. Woerne...
TIT
2010
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Two-way source coding with a helper
Consider the two-way rate-distortion problem in which a helper sends a common limited-rate message to both users based on side information at its disposal. We characterize the reg...
Haim H. Permuter, Yossef Steinberg, Tsachy Weissma...
TIP
2010
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User-Friendly Interactive Image Segmentation Through Unified Combinatorial User Inputs
One weakness in the existing interactive image segmentation algorithms is the lack of more intelligent ways to understand the intention of user inputs. In this paper, we advocate t...
Wenxian Yang, Jianfei Cai, Jianmin Zheng, Jiebo Lu...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Personalised video retrieval: application of implicit feedback and semantic user profiles
TION ABSTRACT Personalised Video Retrieval: Application of Implicit Feedback and Semantic User Profiles Frank Hopfgartner University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom A ch...
Frank Hopfgartner
SAC
2010
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
A new methodology for photometric validation in vehicles visual interactive systems
This work proposes a new methodology for automatically validating the internal lighting system of an automotive, i.e., assessing the visual quality of an instrument cluster (IC) f...
Alexandre W. C. Faria, David Menotti, Daniel S. D....
NETWORK
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Sizing up online social networks
While the size of popular Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as MySpace or Twitter has been reported to be in the tens or hundreds of millions of users (and growing), little is kn...
Reza Rejaie, Mojtaba Torkjazi, Masoud Valafar, Wal...
JSAT
2010
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Experiment design and administration for computer clusters for SAT-solvers (EDACC)
The design of a SAT-solver or the modification of an existing one is always followed by a phase of intensive testing of the solver on a benchmark of instances. This task can be ve...
Adrian Balint, Daniel Gall, Gregor Kapler, Robert ...