We propose use of an appearance manifold with embedded covariance matrix as a technique for recognizing 3D objects from images that are influenced by geometric and quality-degrade...
Rare category detection is an open challenge for active learning, especially in the de-novo case (no labeled examples), but of significant practical importance for data mining - ...
Ontology as a discipline of Computer Science has made many claims about its usefulness, however to date there has been very little evaluation of those claims. We present the resul...
Christopher A. Welty, Ruchi Mahindru, Jennifer Chu...
We present a new class of games, local-effect games (LEGs), which exploit structure in a different way from other compact game representations studied in AI. We show both theoreti...
For TREC-9, we focused on effectiveness in the web track. The key techniques we employed were information fusion, entity-based relevance feedback, Wordnet-based query parsing and ...
Abdur Chowdhury, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen...