In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level....
Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying ...
The notion of fuzzy connectedness captures the idea of "hanging-togetherness" of image elements in an object by assigning a strength of connectedness to every possible pa...
Jayaram K. Udupa, Punam K. Saha, Roberto de Alenca...
How do connected components evolve? What are the regularities that govern the dynamic growth process and the static snapshot of the connected components? In this work, we study pat...
U. Kang, Mary McGlohon, Leman Akoglu, Christos Fal...
We study the task of object part extraction and labeling, which seeks to understand objects beyond simply identifiying their bounding boxes. We start from bottom-up segmentation of...
The management of moving objects has been intensively studied in the recent years. A wide and increasing range of database applications has to deal with spatial objects whose posi...