We describe a new invariant-based data model for image databases under our approach for shape-based retrieval. The data model relies on contours description of the image shape, an...
As with many large organizations, the Government's data is split in many different ways and is collected at different times by different people. The resulting massive data he...
Information is becoming pervasive in the contemporary society, and is increasingly saturating the visual senses and the cognitive efforts of the lay masses. As our attention for v...
Most location sharing applications display people's locations on a map. However, people use a rich variety of terms to refer to their locations, such as "home," &qu...
Jialiu Lin, Guang Xiang, Jason I. Hong, Norman M. ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof argues that “in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” In th...