In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Motivated by applications to sensor networks and privacy preserving databases, we consider the problem of functional compression. The objective is to separately compress possibly c...
The potential for physical flora collections to support scientific research is being enhanced by rapid development of digital databases that represent characteristics of the physic...
Tom Auer, Alan M. MacEachren, Craig McCabe, Scott ...
Nowadays numerous social images have been emerging on the Web. How to precisely label these images is critical to image retrieval. However, traditional image-level tagging methods...
Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Feipi...