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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Scene Text Extraction Using Focus of Mobile Camera
Robust extraction of text from scene images is essential for successful scene text recognition. Scene images usually have non-uniform illumination, complex background, and existen...
Egyul Kim, SeongHun Lee, JinHyung Kim
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Location cache for web queries
This paper proposes a strategy to reduce the amount of hardware involved in the solution of search engine queries. It proposes using a secondary compact cache that keeps minimal i...
Mauricio Marín, Flavio Ferrarotti, Marcelo ...
PVLDB
2008
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14 years 10 months ago
FINCH: evaluating reverse k-Nearest-Neighbor queries on location data
A Reverse k-Nearest-Neighbor (RkNN) query finds the objects that take the query object as one of their k nearest neighbors. In this paper we propose new solutions for evaluating R...
Wei Wu, Fei Yang, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
PVLDB
2010
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14 years 10 months ago
Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
HweeHwa Pang, Xuhua Ding, Xiaokui Xiao
ICWSM
2009
14 years 9 months ago
Emotionality in Text as Predictor of Behavior
The present study demonstrates how the emotional content of search terms and their eventual results affects the breadth of a users' search for information. We observed the qu...
Elliot Onn, Carey K. Morewedge