Abstract--The emerging video coding standard MPEG-4 enables various content-based functionalities for multimedia applications. To support such functionalities, as well as to improv...
The Texture Fragmentation and Reconstruction (TFR) algorithm has been recently introduced [9] to address the problem of image segmentation by textural properties, based on a suita...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
This paper aims at discovering community structure in rich media social networks, through analysis of time-varying, multi-relational data. Community structure represents the laten...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
We present a class of web queries whose result is a multi-column relation instead of a collection of unstructured documents as in standard web search. The user specifies the query...