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ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
CIKM
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Query expansion using random walk models
It has long been recognized that capturing term relationships is an important aspect of information retrieval. Even with large amounts of data, we usually only have significant ev...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan
LOCA
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Prediction of Indoor Movements Using Bayesian Networks
Abstract. This paper investigates the efficiency of in-door next location prediction by comparing several prediction methods. The scenario concerns people in an office building vis...
Jan Petzold, Andreas Pietzowski, Faruk Bagci, Wolf...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Ranking with Uncertain Scores
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas
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CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Private Buddy Search: Enabling Private Spatial Queries in Social Networks
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi