Many visual matching algorithms can be described in terms of the features and the inter-feature distance or metric. The most commonly used metric is the sum of squared di erences ...
—The restoration of a blurry or noisy image is commonly performed with a MAP estimator, which maximizes a posterior probability to reconstruct a clean image from a degraded image...
Taeg Sang Cho, Charles Lawrence Zitnick, Neel Josh...
Abstract. A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's properties. These properties will depend on various system...
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Nenad...
—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...