In the context of computer-assisted plant identification we are facing challenging information retrieval problems because of the very high within-class variability and of the lim...
This paper proposes a chunking strategy to detect unknown words in Chinese word segmentation. First, a raw sentence is pre-segmented into a sequence of word atoms 1 using a maximum...
Maintaining the stability of tracks on multiple targets in video over extended time periods remains a challenging problem. A few methods which have recently shown encouraging resul...
Application-specific dissimilarity functions can be used for learning from a set of objects represented by pairwise dissimilarity matrices in this context. These dissimilarities m...
In this paper we introduce and exploit the concept of contextual rules in the field of object detection. These rules are defined as associations between different object likelihoo...