Near-duplicate image detection is a critical task in copyright protection. More challenging than the common similarity search, this task requires not only the retrieval of the top...
Abstract— The well-known PASTA (“Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages”) property states that, under very general conditions, the fraction of Poisson arrivals that observe an un...
Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Cons...
We motivate the problem of music recommendation based solely on acoustics from groups of related songs or ‘song sets’. We propose four solutions which can be used with any aco...
Observing that current Global Similarity Measures (GSM) which average the effect of few significant differences on all dimensions may cause possible performance limitation, we prop...
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Dawei Song, Xue Li, Stefa...
For TREC-10, we participated in the adhoc and manual web tracks and in both the site-finding and cross-lingual tracks. For the adhoc track, we did extensive calibrations and learn...
Mohammed Aljlayl, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jense...