Data dissemination in pervasive environments is often accomplished by on-demand broadcasting. The time critical nature of the data requests plays an important role in scheduling t...
Keyframe extraction constitutes a fundamental unit in many video retrieval-related applications. In the emerging research field of content-based video copy detection, efficient rep...
We consider the problem of deep web source selection and argue that existing source selection methods are inadequate as they are based on local similarity assessment. Specificall...
Subgroup discovery is a local pattern discovery task, in which descriptions of subpopulations of a database are evaluated against some quality function. As standard quality functio...
Scalability is the key issue in making content-based copy detection (CBCD) methods practical for very large image and video databases. Since copies are transformed versions of ori...