Inheritance is a useful mechanism for factoring and reusing code. However, it has limitations for building extensible systems. We describe nested inheritance, a mechanism that add...
Social tagging provides valuable and crucial information for large-scale web image retrieval. It is ontology-free and easy to obtain; however, irrelevant tags frequently appear, a...
Abstract. Today, digital libraries more and more have to rely on semantic techniques during the workflows of metadata generation, search and navigational access. But, due to the st...
We investigate the challenging issue of joint audio-visual analysis of generic videos targeting at semantic concept detection. We propose to extract a novel representation, the Sh...
Wei Jiang, Courtenay V. Cotton, Shih-Fu Chang, Dan...
The predominant thread-based approach to concurrent programming is bug-prone, difficult to reason about, and does not scale well to large numbers of processors. Sieves provide a s...