Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
This paper describes a database collecting natural color images, called the Natural Image Database, and shows how it is used for illuminant estimation problems. First, we present ...
Abstract—Segmenting lesions is a vital step in many computerized mass-detection schemes for digital (or digitized) mammograms. We have developed two novel lesion segmentation tec...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
This article introduces a scheme for clustering complex and linearly non-separable datasets, without any prior knowledge of the number of naturally occurring groups in the data. T...