In this paper we present two contributions to improve accuracy and speed of an image search system based on bag-of-features: a contextual dissimilarity measure (CDM) and an effici...
We consider the use of meta-data and/or video-domain methods to detect similar videos on the web. Meta-data is extracted from the textual and hyperlink information associated with...
Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
Tradeoffs are an important part of engineering security. Protocol security is important. So are efficiency and cost. This paper provides an early framework for handling such aspec...
Dynamic web applications such as mashups need efficient access to web data that is only accessible via entity search engines (e.g. product or publication search engines). However,...