Detection of template and noise blocks in web pages is an important step in improving the performance of information retrieval and content extraction. Of the many approaches propos...
Abstract. The heterogeneity nature of XML data creates the need for approximate query answering. In this paper, we present an XML system that cooperates with users to provide user-...
This paper proposes an adaptive system for video news story tracking based on the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD). When an interesting story appears in the news, it is flagged man...
Providing a fully functional multimedia DBMS (MMDBMS) becomes an emergency with the recent development of distributed environments. In this paper, we address the impact of using w...
We have developed a biologically-motivated, unsupervised way of grouping together images whose salient regions of interest (ROIs) are perceptually similar regardless of the visual...
Gustavo B. Borba, Humberto R. Gamba, Oge Marques, ...