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BMVC
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Accounting for the Relative Importance of Objects in Image Retrieval
We introduce a method for image retrieval that leverages the implicit information about object importance conveyed by the list of keyword tags a person supplies for an image. We p...
Sung Ju Hwang, Kristen Grauman
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa
We reflect on activities to design a mobile application to enable rural people in South Africa's Eastern Cape to record and share their stories, which have implications for `...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Thomas Reitmaier, Gary Marsden,...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
213views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
15 years 9 months ago
Dictionary-based order-preserving string compression for main memory column stores
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
Carsten Binnig, Stefan Hildenbrand, Franz Fär...
BMCBI
2005
119views more  BMCBI 2005»
14 years 9 months ago
The distance-profile representation and its application to detection of distantly related protein families
Background: Detecting homology between remotely related protein families is an important problem in computational biology since the biological properties of uncharacterized protei...
Chin-Jen Ku, Golan Yona
EDBT
2009
ACM
175views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Towards materialized view selection for distributed databases
Materialized views (MV) can significantly improve the query performance of relational databases. In this paper, we consider MVs to optimize complex scenarios where many heterogen...
Leonardo Weiss Ferreira Chaves, Erik Buchmann, Fab...