Based on the local keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a "bag-of-visualwords (BoW)" and this representation has appeared promising ...
Yu-Gang Jiang, Jun Yang 0003, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexa...
Abstract--Early P2P-TV systems have already attracted millions of users, and many new commercial solutions are entering this market. Little information is however available about h...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
This paper is concerned with the problem of browsing social annotations. Today, a lot of services (e.g., Del.icio.us, Filckr) have been provided for helping users to manage and sh...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...