Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
An iconic image database is a collection of symbolic images where each image is a collection of labeled point features called icons. A method is presented to support fast position...
Abstract— As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard “page view,” current search engines are becoming increasingly inadequate. To realize data-awar...
This paper deals with a multi-stage two-person zero-sum game called the multi-stage search allocation game (MSSAG), in which a searcher and an evader participate. The searcher dist...
Active Shape Model (ASM) is one of the most popular methods for image alignment. To improve its matching accuracy, in this paper, ASM searching method is combined with a simplifie...