Abstract. In the 2nd Annual FOCS (1961), Chao-Kong Chow proved that every Boolean threshold function is uniquely determined by its degree-0 and degree-1 Fourier coefficients. These...
Information retrieval systems, based on keyword match, are evolving to question answering systems that return short passages or direct answers to questions, rather than URLs point...
The variation caused by aging has not received adequate attention compared with pose, lighting, and expression variations. Aging is a complex process that affects both the 3D shap...
Abstract. A clustering method is presented which can be applied to relational knowledge bases. It can be used to discover interesting groupings of resources through their (semantic...
This paper proposes a general probabilistic framework for shape-based modeling and classification of waveform data. A segmental hidden Markov model (HMM) is used to characterize w...