The Web has been rapidly "deepened" by myriad searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query interfaces. As an essential task toward integrating these m...
Image matting is the problem of determining for each pixel in an image whether it is foreground, background, or the mixing parameter, ”alpha”, for those pixels that are a mixt...
—Data compression techniques such as null suppression and dictionary compression are commonly used in today’s database systems. In order to effectively leverage compression, it...
Stratos Idreos, Raghav Kaushik, Vivek R. Narasayya...
: We consider a game played between a hider, who hides a static object in one of several possible positions in a bounded planar region, and a searcher who wishes to reach the objec...
In this paper, we describe a retrieval system that uses hidden annotation to improve the performance. The contribution of this paper is a novel active learning framework that can ...