Despite decades of study, robust shadow detection remains difficult, especially within a single color image. We describe a new approach to detect shadow boundaries in images of o...
Xiang Huang, Gang Hua, Jack Tumblin, Lance William...
Visually extracted 2D and 3D information have their own advantages and disadvantages that complement each other. Therefore, it is important to be able to switch between the differ...
Emre Baseski, Nicolas Pugeault, Sinan Kalkan, Dirk...
We present a document expansion approach that uses Conditional Random Field (CRF) segmentation to automatically extract salient phrases from ad titles. We then supplement the ad d...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Understanding intents from search queries can improve a user’s search experience and boost a site’s advertising profits. Query tagging via statistical sequential labeling mode...
Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szyma...