Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), also known as data mining, focuses on the computerized exploration of large amounts of data and on the discovery of interesting patterns wi...
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
The World Wide Web provides an increasingly powerful and popular publication mechanism. Web documents often contain a large number of images serving various different purposes. Th...
It is a challenging and important task to retrieve images from a large and highly varied image data set based on their visual contents. Problems like how to fill the semantic gap b...
Discovering common objects that appear frequently in a number of images is a challenging problem, due to (1) the appearance variations of the same common object and (2) the enormo...