In the design of multimedia systems, one of the important issues is how to deal with "Kansei" of human beings. The concept of "Kansei" in Japanese includes sev...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
When deploying a heterogeneous camera network or when we use cheap zoom cameras like in cell-phones, it is not practical, if not impossible to off-line calibrate the radial distor...
Image segmentation is the first stage of processing in many practical computer vision systems. While development of particular segmentation algorithms has attracted considerable re...
A reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) query returns the data objects that have a query point as their nearest neighbor (NN). Although such queries have been studied quite extensively in...
Man Lung Yiu, Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis, Y...