Abstract. Query-by-example and query-by-keyword both suffer from the problem of "aliasing," meaning that example-images and keywords potentially have variable interpretat...
Abstract This paper presents an application that automatically generates basic stories: short texts that only narrate the main events of the plot. The system operates with a repres...
In this paper, a novel subspace method called diagonal principal component analysis (DiaPCA) is proposed for face recognition. In contrast to standard PCA, DiaPCA directly seeks t...
This paper describes an ad hoc networking scheme and routing protocol for emergency communications. The objective of the network is to collect damage assessment information quickl...
In this work a new multi-resolution model is proposed for polygonal meshes. It is based on the dual edge collapse, which performs face clustering instead of vertex clustering. The...