A popular framework for the interpretation of image sequences is based on the layered model; see e.g. Wang and Adelson [8], Irani et al. [2]. Jojic and Frey [3] provide a generativ...
Multi-category classification of short dialogues is a common task performed by humans. When assigning a question to an expert, a customer service operator tries to classify the cu...
Asymptotically optimal bit allocation among a set of quantizers for a finite collection of sources was determined in 1963 by Huang and Schultheiss. Their solution, however, gives ...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
Let G be a directed graph with n vertices and non-negative weights in its directed edges, embedded on a surface of genus g, and let f be an arbitrary face of G. We describe an alg...