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CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Visual Event Recognition in News Video using Kernel Methods with Multi-Level Temporal Alignment
In this work, we systematically study the problem of visual event recognition in unconstrained news video sequences. We adopt the discriminative kernel-based method for which vide...
Dong Xu, Shih-Fu Chang
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Access: news and blog analysis for the social sciences
The social sciences strive to understand the political, social, and cultural world around us, but have been impaired by limited access to the quantitative data sources enjoyed by ...
Mikhail Bautin, Charles B. Ward, Akshay Patil, Ste...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using a model of social dynamics to predict popularity of news
Popularity of content in social media is unequally distributed, with some items receiving a disproportionate share of attention from users. Predicting which newly-submitted items ...
Kristina Lerman, Tad Hogg
VLSISP
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
A Multi-Pronged Approach to Improving Semantic Extraction of News Video
In this paper we describe a multi-strategy approach to improving semantic extraction from news video. Experiments show the value of careful parameter tuning, exploiting multiple fe...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Ming-yu Chen, Michael G. C...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Designing interfaces for presentation of opinion diversity
News aggregators rely on links and users votes to select and present subsets of the large quantity of news and opinion items generated each day. Opinion diversity in the output se...
Sean A. Munson, Daniel Xiaodan Zhou, Paul Resnick