Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
The pervasive usage of mobile devices and wireless networking support have enabled more and more Internet streaming services to all kinds of heterogeneous mobile devices. However,...
This paper describes a novel music playback interface, called Musicream, which lets a user unexpectedly come across various musical pieces similar to those liked by the user. With...
Abstract: The rise of the Web 2.0 has made content publishing easier than ever. Yesterday’s passive consumers are now active users who generate and contribute new data to the web...