Web users display their preferences implicitly by navigating through a sequence of pages or by providing numeric ratings to some items. Web usage mining techniques are used to ext...
With the prosperity of tourism and Web 2.0 technologies, more and more people have willingness to share their travel experiences on the Web (e.g., weblogs, forums, or Web 2.0 comm...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Changhu Wang, Rong Xiao, Jiang...
In many social settings, images of groups of people are captured. The structure of this group provides meaningful context for reasoning about individuals in the group, and about th...
In this paper, we propose a robust multi-layer background subtraction technique which takes advantages of local texture features represented by local binary patterns (LBP) and pho...
The paper introduces a new framework for feature learning in classification motivated by information theory. We first systematically study the information structure and present a n...