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CVPR
2003
IEEE
16 years 9 months ago
Face Alignment Using Statistical Models and Wavelet Features
Active Shape Model (ASM) is a powerful statistical tool for face alignment by shape. However, it can suffer from changes in illumination and facial expression changes, and local m...
Feng Jiao, Stan Z. Li, Heung-Yeung Shum, Dale Schu...
AUSAI
2003
Springer
16 years 5 days ago
Dynamic Agent Ordering in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
The distributed constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general formalisation used to represent problems in distributed multiagent systems. To deal with realistic problems, mult...
Lingzhong Zhou, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
On the feasibility of multi-site web search engines
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
MM
2009
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
Query expansion for hash-based image object retrieval
An efficient indexing method is essential for content-based image retrieval with the exponential growth in large-scale videos and photos. Recently, hash-based methods (e.g., local...
Yin-Hsi Kuo, Kuan-Ting Chen, Chien-Hsing Chiang, W...
AINA
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Optimal Resource Discovery Paths of Gnutella2
This paper shows that the performance of peer-to-peer resource discovery algorithms is upper bounded by a k-Steiner minimum tree and proposes an algorithm locating near-optimal qu...
Mikko Vapa, Annemari Auvinen, Yevgeniy Ivanchenko,...