While collaboration is a natural choice in many situations, there is a lack of specialized tools for collaboratively seeking information. We present design specifications and impl...
An unsupervised nonparametric approach is proposed to automatically extract representative face samples (exemplars) from a video sequence or an image set for multipleshot face rec...
This paper proposes a number of improvements to existing work in off line video object segmentation. Object color and motion variance, and histogram-based merging are used to impr...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) have received significant attention recently. Even though WS are based on open standards and support software interoperab...
This paper describes the Patent Retrieval Task in the Fourth NTCIR Workshop, and the test collections produced in this task. We perform the invalidity search task, in which each p...