: There is a long tradition of describing cities through a focus on the characteristics of their residents. A brief review of the history of this approach to describing cities high...
Topic detection and tracking (TDT) applications aim to organize the temporally ordered stories of a news stream according to the events. Two major problems in TDT are new event de...
In this paper we present a novel focus+context zooming technique, which allows users to zoom into a route and its associated landmarks in a 3D urban environment from a 45-degree bi...
Natural scene images brought new challenges for a few years and one of them is text understanding over images or videos. Text extraction which consists to segment textual foregrou...
In this paper, we propose a new tunable index scheme, called iMinMax(), that maps points in highdimensional spaces to single-dimensional values determined by their maximum or minim...
Cui Yu, Stéphane Bressan, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee...