Bi-directional Ontology Versioning BOV

his paper defines a new type of ontology versioning: Bi-directional Ontology Versioning: BOV. BOV provides bi-directional mappings and transformations between concepts in two ontology versions. BOV is identified by two levels mapping processes: linguistic mapping and structural mapping. BOV can satisfy the requirement of mapping in distributed environment

Generalized Max Pooling

State-of-the-art patch-based image representations involve a pooling operation that aggregates statistics computed from local descriptors. Standard pooling operations include sum- and max-pooling. Sum-pooling lacks discriminability because the resulting representation is strongly influenced by frequent yet often uninformative descriptors, but only weakly influenced by rare yet potentially highly-informative ones. Max-pooling equalizes the influence of frequent and rare descriptors but is only applicable to representations that rely on count statistics, such as the bag-of-visual-words (BOV) and its soft- and sparse-coding extensions. We propose a novel pooling mechanism that achieves the same effect as max-pooling but is applicable beyond the BOV and especially to the state-of-the-art Fisher Vector -- hence the name Generalized Max Pooling (GMP). It involves equalizing the similarity between each patch and the pooled representation, which is shown to be equivalent to re-weighting the per-patch statistics. We show on five public image classification benchmarks that the proposed GMP can lead to significant performance gains with respect to heuristic alternatives.Comment: (to appear) CVPR 2014 - IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (2014

BOV – a web-based BLAST output visualization tool

Article discussing research on BOV, a web-based BLAST output visualization tool

From spinach chloroplasts to endogenous bacteria causing diseases in citrus: an autobiography of Joseph Marie Bové

From spinach chloroplasts to endogenous bacteria causing diseases in citrus: an autobiography of Joseph Marie Bov

[1984-02-16] Minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Commonwealth University February 16, 1984.

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/bov/1243/thumbnail.jp