The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
We present an omnidirectional 3D acquisition system based on a mobile array of high-resolution consumer digital SLR cameras that automatically capture high dynamic range stereo pa...
Jiajun Zhu, Greg Humphreys, David Koller, Skip Ste...
The digitization of the 3D shape of real objects is a rapidly expanding field, with applications in entertainment, design, and archaeology. We propose a new 3D model acquisition s...
Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Olaf A. Hall-Holt, Marc Levoy
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
This paper introduces the notion of temporally constrained ranked retrieval, which, given a query and a time constraint, produces the best possible ranked list within the specifi...