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Ethics and the Cloud

September 30, 2010
Author(s)
Keith Miller, Jeff Voas
Cloud computing is an idea that's rapidly evolving. Still, the amount of money and attention devoted to this topic makes it seems sensible to discuss how ethicists view the kinds of changes in computing that are being called "the cloud." This department is

Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

September 15, 2010
Author(s)
Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker
The speaker recognition evaluation is an ongoing series of evaluations conducted by NIST. A detection cost function is computed over the sequence of trials provided and used for all speaker detection tests while measuring speaker detection performance. The

PYRAMID MODEL BASED DOWN-SAMPLING FOR IMAGE INPAINTING

September 2, 2010
Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi
Image inpainting is a useful and powerful technique for automatically restoring or removing objects in films and damaged pictures. In the last ten years, many excellent inpainting algorithms have been proposed after Bertalmio et al. [1]. However, no paper

A Shape-based Searching System for Industrial Components

July 24, 2010
Author(s)
Chun Pan (Benny) Cheung, Afzal A. Godil
A web-based application has been developed for shape-based searching for industrial components. The application is based on Flex, which is excellent at providing highly interactive user interfaces, and O3D, which can display 3D models in a web browser

The Effect of Assessor Errors on IR System Evaluation

July 19, 2010
Author(s)
Ben Carterette, Ian Soboroff
Recent efforts in test collection building have focused on scaling back the number of necessary relevance judgments and then scaling up the number of search topics. Since the largest source of variation in a Cranfield-style experiment comes from the topics

Human Assisted Speaker Recognition in NIST 2010 Speaker Recognition Evaluation

June 30, 2010
Author(s)
Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg
The 2010 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation or SRE10 (see SLTC Newsletter, July 2010) included a pilot test of human assisted speaker recognition (HASR). This test, which was open to sites whether or not they participated in the main evaluation of fully

Investigating the Bag-of-Words Method for 3D Shape Retrieval

June 30, 2010
Author(s)
Afzal A. Godil, Xiaolan Li
This paper investigates the capabilities of the Bag-of-Words (BW) method in the 3D shape retrieval field. The contributions of this paper are: 1) the 3D shape retrieval task is categorized from different points of view: specific vs. generic, partial-to

Visual Similarity based 3D Shape Retrieval Using Bag-of-Features

June 21, 2010
Author(s)
Zhouhui Lian, Afzal A. Godil, Xianfang Sun
This paper develops a novel 3D shape retrieval method, which uses Bag-of-Features and an efficient multi-view shape matching scheme. In our approach, a properly normalized object is first described by a set of depth-buffer views captured on the surrounding

On interchangeability of two laboratories

June 18, 2010
Author(s)
Chih-Ming Wang, Hariharan K. Iyer
This paper proposes a measure for assessing the degree of equivalence between the two laboratories in a key comparison. The measure is called asymmetric degree of interchangeability. It is asymmetric since, based on this measure, a laboratory may be

Test Collection Diagnosis and Treatment

June 15, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff
Test collections are a mainstay of information retrieval research. Since the 1990s, large reusable test collections have been developed in the context of community evaluations such as TREC, NTCIR, CLEF, and INEX. Recently, advances in pooling practice as

Document Image Collection Using Amazon s Mechanical Turk

June 4, 2010
Author(s)
Audrey N. Tong, Mark A. Przybocki
We present findings from a collaborative effort aimed at testing the feasibility of using Amazon s Mechanical Turk as a data collection platform to build a corpus of document images. Experimental design and implementation workflow are described

Blog Track Research at TREC

June 1, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Rodrygo Santos, Iadh Ounis
The TREC Blog track aims to explore information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere, by building reusable test collections for blog-related search tasks. Since, its advent in TREC 2006, the Blog track has led to much research in this growing field, and

An Evaluation of Technologies for Knowledge Base Population

May 21, 2010
Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Paul McNamee, Heather Simpson, Patrick Schone, Stephanie Strassel
Previous content extraction evaluations have neglected to address problems which complicate the incorporation of extracted information into an existing knowledge base. Previous question answering evaluations have likewise avoided tasks such as explicit

Overview of the TREC-2009 Blog Track

May 3, 2010
Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
In TREC 2009, the Blog track has been markedly revamped with the use of a new and larger sample of the blogosphere, cal led Blogs08, which has a 13-month timespan covering a period ranging from 14th January 2008 to 10th February 2009, and the introdu c-

3D shape retrieval based on Multi-scale Integral Orientations

May 2, 2010
Author(s)
Afzal A. Godil, Stephane Bres, Asim Wagan
In this paper we describe a novel 3D shape retrieval method based on Multi-scale Integral Orientations. In our approach, a 3D model after normalization is represented by a set of depth images captured uniformly on a unit circle. Then the shape descriptor

SHREC '10 Track: Large Scale Retrieval

May 2, 2010
Author(s)
Zhouhui Lian, Afzal A. Godil, Geert-Jan Giezeman, Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Waqar Saleem, Takahiko Furuya, Thomas Baumbach, Hannah Bast, Joachim Giesen
We present the results of the ULDS track of the shape retrieval contest SHREC 2010. The task was to perform 40 queries in a dataset of 10000 shapes. We describe the methods used by the contestants and discuss the results.

SHREC 10 Track: Generic 3D Warehouse

May 2, 2010
Author(s)
Vanamali ThiruvadandamPorethi, Afzal A. Godil, Helin Dutagaci, Zhouhui Lian, Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Takahiko Furuya
In this paper we present the results of the Shape Retrieval Contest 10 (SHREC 10) of Generic 3D Warehouse. The aim of this track was to evaluate the performances of various 3D shape retrieval algorithms on a large Generic benchmark based on the Google 3D

SHREC 10 Track: Non-rigid 3D Shape Retrieval

May 2, 2010
Author(s)
Zhouhui Lian, Afzal A. Godil
Non-rigid shape matching is one of the most challenging fields in content-based 3D object retrieval. The aim of the SHREC 2010 - Shape Retrieval Contest of Non-rigid 3D Models is to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of different methods run on a non

SHREC 2010: robust large-scale shape retrieval benchmark

May 2, 2010
Author(s)
A M. Bronstein, M M. Bronstein, U Castellani, B Falcidieno, A. Fusiello, Afzal A. Godil, L J. Guibas, I Kokkinos, Zhouhui Lian, M Ovsjanikov, G Patane, M. Spagnuolo, R Toldo
SHREC 10 robust large-scale shape retrieval benchmark simulates a retrieval scenario, in which the queries include multiple modifications and transformations of the same shape. The benchmark allows evaluating how algorithms cope with certain classes of

SHREC'10 Track - Range Scan Retrieval

May 2, 2010
Author(s)
Helin Dutagaci, Afzal A. Godil, Chun Pan (Benny) Cheung
The SHREC 10 Shape Retrieval Contest of Range Scans aims at comparing algorithms that match a range scan to complete 3D models in a target database. The queries are range scans of real objects, and the objective is to retrieve complete 3D models that are
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