Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
This paper addresses the problem of recognizing shadows from monochromatic natural images. Without chromatic information, shadow classification is very challenging because the in...
Evolvable Hardware (EHW) is a new method for designing electronic circuits. However, there are several problems to solve for making high performance systems. One is the limited sca...
We present a method for the simultaneous detection and segmentation of people from static images. The proposed technique requires no manual segmentation during training, and explo...
Human-quality text summarization systems are di cult to design, and even more di cult to evaluate, in part because documents can di er along several dimensions, such as length, wri...
Jade Goldstein, Mark Kantrowitz, Vibhu O. Mittal, ...