Video surveillance systems seek to automatically identify events of interest in a variety of situations. Extracting a moving object from background is the most important step of t...
The Terabyte Track explores how adhoc retrieval and evaluation techniques can scale to terabyte-sized collections. For TREC 2004, our first year, 50 new adhoc topics were created ...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel method for developing and evaluating intelligent robot behavior for joint human-robot activities. We extended a physical simulation of an auto...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
This paper describes the opinion retrieval system for TREC 2007 blog track. This paper focuses on two components of the system. One component is important content block detection ...