Real-world social networks are often hierarchical, reflecting the fact that some communities are composed of a few smaller, sub-communities. This paper describes a hierarchical B...
Haizheng Zhang, Wei Li, Xuerui Wang, C. Lee Giles,...
In this paper, we propose a system identification approach for group activity recognition in traffic surveillance. Statistical shape theory is used to extract features, and then...
Image matting and segmentation, which are used to extract a foreground object from the background, are primary techniques for digital image and video editing. In digital matting, ...
In this paper, we study the security of an image scrambling algorithm based on Space-Filling Curves (SFC). A random SFC is a pixel permutation that changes the scanning order with...
In this paper, we present a framework to analyze and summarize the temporal dynamics within personal blogs. Blog temporal dynamics are difficult to capture using a few class descr...