The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the query concepts (e.g., terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. I...
The assumptions underlying the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) have led to a number of alternative approaches that cater or compensate for the PRP’s limitations. In this pos...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
We present a novel and general optimisation framework for visual SLAM, which scales for both local, highly accurate reconstruction and large-scale motion with long loop closures. ...
Hauke Strasdat, Andrew J. Davison, J. M. M. Montie...
Background modelling on tensor field has recently been proposed for foreground detection tasks. Taking into account the Riemannian structure of the tensor manifold, recent resear...
Rui Caseiro, João F. Henriques, Pedro Martins, Jo...
Invariant representations in object recognition systems are generally obtained by pooling feature vectors over spatially local neighborhoods. But pooling is not local in the featu...
Y-Lan Boureau, Nicolas Le Roux, francis bach, Jean...