We present a data structure, called a ray interpolant tree, or RI-tree, which stores a discrete set of directed lines in 3-space, each represented as a point in 4-space. Each dire...
Nowadays, wireless sensor networks have been widely used in many monitoring applications. Due to the low quality of sensors and random effects of the environment, however, it is ...
Yongzhen Zhuang, Lei Chen 0002, Xiaoyang Sean Wang...
—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
This paper focuses on decentralized personalized search engines. It is composed of three parts. Firstly, we formulate the problem and we propose a graph-based measure of quality o...
Text documents often contain valuable structured data that is hidden in regular English sentences. This data is best exploited if available as a relational table that we could use...