With the increasing popularity of digital multimedia such as images and videos and the advent of the cloud computing paradigm, a fast growing amount of private and sensitive multi...
In this paper we present two contributions to improve accuracy and speed of an image search system based on bag-of-features: a contextual dissimilarity measure (CDM) and an effici...
We address the problem of designing data structures that allow efficient search for approximate nearest neighbors. More specifically, given a database consisting of a set of vecto...
Most markets compromise the economist’s ideal of matching the marginal benefits to consumers with the marginal cost of supply for incremental purchases because individual buyers...
This paper presents a melody spotting system based on Variable Duration Hidden Markov Models (VDHMM’s), capable of locating monophonic melodies in a database of raw audio record...