We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
In this letter, we propose a clustering model that efficiently mitigates image and video under/over-segmentation by combining generalized Gaussian mixture modeling and feature sele...
—Illumination distortion due to uncontrolled lighting can severely degrade the color appearance of a photo. Frequently, the desired colors for objects in a newly taken query imag...
David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Gabriel Takacs...
This paper presents a new framework for users to select relevant data from an XML document and store it in an existing relational database, as opposed to previous approaches that s...
State-of-art image retrieval techniques have been developed to support high-level (semantics) querying and browsing of images. For certain user queries, it is also very important ...