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LSH kNN graph for diffusion on image retrieval
Full text linkExperimental results demonstrated the goodness of the diffusion mechanism for several computer vision tasks: image retrieval, semi-supervised and supervised learning, image classification. Diffusion requires the construction of a kNN graph in order to work. As predictable, the quality of the created graph influences the final results. Unfortunately, the larger the used dataset is, the more time the construction of the kNN graph takes, since the number of edges between nodes grows exponentially. A common and effective solution to deal with this problem is the brute-force method, but it requires a very long computation on large datasets. This paper proposes improvements on LSH kNN graph method that efficiently create an approximate kNN graph which is demonstrated to be faster than other state-of-the-art methods (18x faster than brute force on a dataset of more than 100k images) for content-based image retrieval, while obtaining also comparable performance in terms of accuracy. LSH kNN graph has been tested and compared with the state-of-the-art approaches for image retrieval on several public datasets, such as Oxford5k, ROxford5k, Paris6k, RParis6k and Oxford105k
Bag of indexes: a multi-index scheme for efficient approximate nearest neighbor search
No full textDuring the last years, the problem of Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) was addressed in many different ways, achieving excellent results in small-scale datasets. With growth of the data to evaluate, new issues need to be considered and new techniques are necessary in order to create an efficient yet accurate system. In particular, computational time and memory occupancy need to be kept as low as possible, whilst the retrieval accuracy has to be preserved as much as possible. For this reason, a brute-force approach is no longer feasible, and an Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search method is preferable. This paper describes the state-of-the-art ANN methods, with a particular focus on indexing systems, and proposes a new ANN technique called Bag of Indexes (BoI). This new technique is compared with the state of the art on several public benchmarks, obtaining 86.09% of accuracy on Holidays+Flickr1M, 99.20% on SIFT1M and 92.4% on GIST1M. Noteworthy, these state-of-the-art accuracy results are obtained by the proposed approach with a very low retrieval time, making it excellent in the trade off between accuracy and efficiency
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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