Among the vast numbers of images on the web are many duplicates and near-duplicates, that is, variants derived from the same original image. Such near-duplicates appear in many we...
Jun Jie Foo, Justin Zobel, Ranjan Sinha, Seyed M. ...
Aesthetic images evoke an emotional response that transcends mere visual appreciation. In this work we develop a novel computational means for evaluating the composition aesthetic...
Ligang G. Liu, Renjie J. Chen, Lior Wolf, Daniel C...
This paper presents an unsupervised texture segmentation method, which uses distributions of local binary patterns and pattern contrasts for measuring the similarity of adjacent i...
We discuss the use of lattice vector quantizers in conjunction with a quadtree-based sorting algorithm for the compression of multidimensional data sets, as encountered, for examp...
Alessandro J. S. Dutra, William A. Pearlman, Eduar...
Communication optimization plays an important role in building networked distributed applications. In this paper, we systematically evaluate four bandwidth reduction algorithms, n...