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ICDE
2000
IEEE
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16 years 7 months ago
Accurate Estimation of the Cost of Spatial Selections
Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jeffrey F. Naughton
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
97views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 10 months ago
Bifocal Sampling for Skew-Resistant Join Size Estimation
This paper introduces bifocal sampling, a new technique for estimating the size of an equi-join of two relations. Bifocal sampling classi es tuples in each relation into two group...
Sumit Ganguly, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, A...
TIP
2008
256views more  TIP 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Image-Based Human Age Estimation by Manifold Learning and Locally Adjusted Robust Regression
Estimating human age automatically via facial image analysis has lots of potential real-world applications, such as human computer interaction and multimedia communication. However...
Guodong Guo, Yun Fu, Charles R. Dyer, Thomas S. Hu...
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EDBT
2006
ACM
121views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
A Decomposition-Based Probabilistic Framework for Estimating the Selectivity of XML Twig Queries
In this paper we present a novel approach for estimating the selectivity of XML twig queries. Such a technique is useful for approximate query answering as well as for determining...
Chao Wang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ruoming Jin
CVPR
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Human age estimation using bio-inspired features
We investigate the biologically inspired features (BIF) for human age estimation from faces. As in previous bioinspired models, a pyramid of Gabor filters are used at all positio...
Guodong Guo, Guowang Mu, Yun Fu, Thomas S. Huang