In this work we present a new string similarity feature, the sparse spatial sample (SSS). An SSS is a set of short substrings at specific spatial displacements contained in the or...
In web search, recency ranking refers to ranking documents by relevance which takes freshness into account. In this paper, we propose a retrieval system which automatically detect...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne,...
A semantically meaningful image hierarchy can ease the human effort in organizing thousands and millions of pictures (e.g., personal albums), and help to improve performance of en...
Li-Jia Li, Chong Wang, Yongwhan Lim, David Blei, L...
The bag-of-words approach has become increasingly attractive in the fields of object category recognition and scene classification, witnessed by some successful applications [5, 7...
For flexible interactions between a robot and humans, we address the issue of automatic recognition of human emotions during the interaction such as embarrassment, pleasure, and af...