Many popular online services provide "local" or "yellow-pages" search, but none of them allow users to customize the search over user-specified data. Instead, ...
Naren Datha, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Vibhuti S. ...
Similarity search, namely, finding approximate nearest neighborhoods, is the core of many large scale machine learning or vision applications. Recently, many research results dem...
Although it has been studied for several years by computer vision and machine learning communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we present AnnoSea...
Association search is to search for certain instances in semantic web and then make inferences from and about the instances we have found. In this paper, we propose the problem of...
We present a new random search method for solving simulation optimization problems. Our approach emphasizes the need for maintaining the right balance between exploration and expl...