A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
In this paper we study the connection between sentiment of images expressed in metadata and their visual content in the social photo sharing environment Flickr. To this end, we co...
Stefan Siersdorfer, Enrico Minack, Fan Deng, Jonat...
This paper proposes a new framework to formulate the problem of rushes video summarization as an unsupervised learning problem. We pose the problem of video summarization as one o...
Yang Liu, Feng Zhou, Wei Liu, Fernando De la Torre...
This paper considers the problem of distributed source coding for a large sensor network. A typical shortcoming of current approaches to true distributed coding is the exponential...
The categorization of our environment into feature types is an essential prerequisite for cartography, geographic information retrieval, routing applications, spatial decision supp...