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PR
2010
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Online finger-knuckle-print verification for personal authentication
Biometric based personal authentication is an effective method for automatically recognizing, with a high confidence, a person’s identity. By observing that the texture pattern p...
Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang 0006, David Zhang, Hailong Zh...
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PVLDB
2010
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Transforming Range Queries To Equivalent Box Queries To Optimize Page Access
Range queries based on L1 distance are a common type of queries in multimedia databases containing feature vectors. We propose a novel approach that transforms the feature space i...
Sakti Pramanik, Alok Watve, Chad R. Meiners, Alex ...
PVLDB
2010
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Retrieving Top-k Prestige-Based Relevant Spatial Web Objects
The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...
Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen
PVLDB
2010
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TimeTrails: A System for Exploring Spatio-Temporal Information in Documents
Spatial and temporal data have become ubiquitous in many application domains such as the Geosciences or life sciences. Sophisticated database management systems are employed to ma...
Jannik Strötgen, Michael Gertz
RAS
2010
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Probabilistic Policy Reuse for inter-task transfer learning
Policy Reuse is a reinforcement learning technique that efficiently learns a new policy by using past similar learned policies. The Policy Reuse learner improves its exploration b...
Fernando Fernández, Javier García, M...