Given an object model and a black-box measure of similarity between the model and candidate targets, we consider visual object tracking as a numerical optimization problem. During...
Web pages (and resources, in general) can be characterized according to their geographical locality. For example, a web page with general information about wildflowers could be c...
Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Richard ...
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
We present a new window-based method for correspondence search using varying support-weights. We adjust the support-weights of the pixels in a given support window based on color s...
A geographic search request contains a query consisting of one or more keywords, and a search-location that the user searches for. In this paper, we study the problem of discoveri...