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From DocEng in Munich to LIP6 in Paris
I guess that for all people involved, DocEng’09 was a success. Like last year, the conference was small — I think that we were 60 or 70 participants — but the quality of the works presented was high, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperation, doceng, etis, France, Germany, lip6, publication, seminar
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Papers accepted on DocEng 2009
I had two short papers accepted on this year’s DocEng: Geometric Consistency Checking for Local-Descriptor Based Document Retrieval, co-authored with David Picard and Matthieu Cord; and Layout-Aware Limiarization for Readability Enhancement of Degraded Historical Documents, co-authored with Flávio Bertholdo and Arnaldo Araújo. Continue reading
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Tagged cbir, cultural heritage, doceng, geometric consistency, iTowns, limiarization, paper, publication
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Upcoming Talk: kNN Search and CBIR
I’ve been invited by Prof. Francisco Pelaez and Prof. Camila Barione of the Centre of Mathematics Computing and Cognition of the Federal University of ABC to give my talk on kNN Search and CBIR (Content Based Image Retrieval). I will … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-way trees, Brazil, cbir, indexing, kNN search, multicurves, projection kd-forests, seminar, thesis, UFABC
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Upcoming Talk: Three New Methods for kNN Search
Prof. Ricardo Torres has invited me to the Institute of Computing of the State University of Campinas, where I am giving a talk on the work I’ve done on my thesis. I will explore the challenges of kNN search (also … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-way trees, Brazil, indexing, kNN search, multicurves, projection kd-forests, seminar, thesis, UNICAMP
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Upcoming Talk: High-Dimensional Indexing and CBIR
On Wednesday, April 8, at 14h30 I’ll be giving a talk on the indexing of high-dimensional data and its applications to CBIR. It will take place at ICEx — UFMG in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, cbir, conference, France, indexing, kNN search, multicurves
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Back to Brazil… and to an old research subject
The lack of recent updates has been result of the end of my Research Internship in France, and all the consequent rush in tying up loose ends there, and setting up new projects here. Last week I was blessed with Carnaval break, but it was also opportunity to revisit an old research subject. Continue reading
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Tagged back to work, Brazil, career in science, cultural heritage, digital preservation, France
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From Research to Product… and More Research
Alisson Sol, from Microsoft Research, gave us a talk explaining his ideas on how developpers can work in cooperation with researchers to bring their concepts to market, and how Microsoft is working to streamline this process. As a bonus, he pointed me to some intriguing current research at Microsoft. Continue reading
Fresh at thirty
Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach is now, of course, a classic, but it was only this year that I’ve finally read it. All I can say is that it is worth every gram of the hype. Continue reading
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Tagged books, cognitive sciences, GEB, Hofstadter, mathematics, strange loop
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Paper on CIKM ’08
I’ve presented the paper “High-Dimensional Descriptor Indexing for Large Multimedia Databases” in the Session 5C : Information Retrieval — Multilingual and Multimedia of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management — CIKM 2008. This paper presents the third … Continue reading
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Paper on DocEng ’08
I’ve presented the paper “Fast Identification of Visual Documents Using Local Descriptors” on the 8th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering — DocEng 2008. This paper had a stronger emphasis in the application (image identification, also known as copy detection or … Continue reading
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