The new video-coding standard MPEG-4 enables content-based functionality, as well as high coding efficiency, by taking into account shape information of moving objects. A novel alg...
The automatic generation of back-of-the book indexes seems to be out of sight of the Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing communities, although the increasingly la...
At present, adapting an Information Extraction system to new topics is an expensive and slow process, requiring some knowledge engineering for each new topic. We propose a new par...
We propose a novel approach to unsupervised facial image
alignment. Differently from previous approaches, that
are confined to affine transformations on either the entire
face o...
A critical problem in developing information agents for the Web is accessing data that is formatted for human use. We have developed a set of tools for extracting data from web si...
Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Steven Minton,...