This paper presents techniques in clustering the sametopic news stories according to event themes. We model the relationship of stories with textual and visual concepts under the ...
Multi-homed mobile devices have multiple wireless communication interfaces, each connecting to the Internet via a low speed and bursty WAN link such as a cellular link. We propose...
IEEE 802.15.3 efficiently uses time-division multipleaccess (TDMA) to support the quality of service (QoS) for multimedia traffic. In the TDMA mechanism, however, there is a signi...
We present the MusicSurfer, a metadata free system for the interaction with massive collections of music. MusicSurfer automatically extracts descriptions related to instrumentatio...
Abstract. In this paper, a combined shape-texture approach to discriminative face authentication is studied. Facial texture information is captured through Gabor responses (jets), ...