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 Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM) developed in the State of Florida offers an open, public and effective tool for the government to regulate the insurance ratemaking...
Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Na Zhao, Shahid Hamid, K...
In the context of auctions for digital goods, an interesting Random Sampling Optimal Price auction (RSOP) has been proposed by Goldberg, Hartline and Wright; this leads to a truth...
In this paper, we report on our experience with the creation of an automated, human-assisted process to extract metadata from documents in a large (>100,000), dynamically growi...
Jianfeng Tang, Kurt Maly, Steven J. Zeil, Mohammad...