— Many modern computer vision algorithms are built atop of a set of low-level feature operators (such as SIFT [1], [2]; HOG [3], [4]; or LBP [5], [6]) that transform raw pixel va...
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
Researchers from the same lab often spend a considerable amount of time searching for published articles relevant to their current project. Despite having similar interests, they c...
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...