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CVPR
2003
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Face Alignment Using Statistical Models and Wavelet Features
Active Shape Model (ASM) is a powerful statistical tool for face alignment by shape. However, it can suffer from changes in illumination and facial expression changes, and local m...
Feng Jiao, Stan Z. Li, Heung-Yeung Shum, Dale Schu...
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AUSAI
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Agent Ordering in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
The distributed constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general formalisation used to represent problems in distributed multiagent systems. To deal with realistic problems, mult...
Lingzhong Zhou, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
On the feasibility of multi-site web search engines
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
MM
2009
ACM
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15 years 10 months ago
Query expansion for hash-based image object retrieval
An efficient indexing method is essential for content-based image retrieval with the exponential growth in large-scale videos and photos. Recently, hash-based methods (e.g., local...
Yin-Hsi Kuo, Kuan-Ting Chen, Chien-Hsing Chiang, W...
AINA
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Optimal Resource Discovery Paths of Gnutella2
This paper shows that the performance of peer-to-peer resource discovery algorithms is upper bounded by a k-Steiner minimum tree and proposes an algorithm locating near-optimal qu...
Mikko Vapa, Annemari Auvinen, Yevgeniy Ivanchenko,...