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CVPR
2009
IEEE
16 years 4 months ago
Learning query-dependent prefilters for scalable image retrieval
We describe an algorithm for similar-image search which is designed to be efficient for extremely large collections of images. For each query, a small response set is selected by...
Lorenzo Torresani (Dartmouth College), Martin Szum...
WSDM
2009
ACM
131views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Diversifying search results
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...
ICDE
2012
IEEE
191views Database» more  ICDE 2012»
13 years 4 days ago
Processing and Notifying Range Top-k Subscriptions
— We consider how to support a large number of users over a wide-area network whose interests are characterized by range top-k continuous queries. Given an object update, we need...
Albert Yu, Pankaj K. Agarwal, Jun Yang 0001
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
SENSYS
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
MAX: human-centric search of the physical world
MAX is a system that facilitates human-centric search of the physical world. It allows humans to search for and locate objects as and when they need it instead of organizing them ...
Kok-Kiong Yap, Vikram Srinivasan, Mehul Motani