Scrolling is an essential part of our everyday computing experience. Contemporary scrolling techniques rely on the explicit initiation of scrolling by the user. The act of scrolli...
—This paper focuses on Audio Event Detection (AED), a research area which aims to substantially enhance the access to audio in multimedia content. With the ever-growing quantity ...
Virginia Barbosa, Thomas Pellegrini, Miguel Bugalh...
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 ...
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming the de facto standard for exchanging information over the Internet, which results in the proliferation of XML documents. This has led ...
Random projections have recently emerged as a powerful method for dimensionality reduction. Theoretical results indicate that the method preserves distances quite nicely; however,...