: Nowadays, a central topic in database science is the need of an integrated access to large amounts of data provided by various information sources whose contents are strictly rel...
Abstract. We propose a number of techniques for learning a global ranking from data that may be incomplete and imbalanced -- characteristics that are almost universal to modern dat...
We present a new approach for enhancing local scene contrast by unsharp masking over arbitrary surfaces under any form of illumination. Our adaptation of a well-known 2D technique...
We propose a number of techniques for obtaining a global ranking from data that may be incomplete and imbalanced — characteristics that are almost universal to modern datasets co...
—In this paper, we introduce a novel method to solve shape alignment problems. We use gray-scale “images” to represent source shapes, and propose a novel two-component Gaussi...