Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
We consider the problem of orienting the edges of a graph so that the length of a longest path in the resulting digraph is minimum. As shown by Gallai, Roy and Vitaver, this edge ...
Automatic pronunciation of words from their spelling alone is a hard computational problem, especially for languages like English and French where there is only a partially consis...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
Feature design and feature selection are two key problems in facial image based age perception. In this paper, we proposed to using ranking model to do feature selection on the ha...