We outline the rationale and preliminary results of using the State Context Property (SCOP) formalism, originally developed as a generalization of quantum mechanics, to describe t...
Videos from distributed sources (e.g., broadcasts, podcasts, blogs, etc.) have grown exponentially. Topic threading is very useful for organizing such large-volume information sou...
In this paper, we present a novel multiple kernel method to learn the optimal classification function for visual concept. Although many carefully designed kernels have been propose...
We introduce a novel approach to incremental e-mail categorization based on identifying and exploiting "clumps" of messages that are classified similarly. Clumping reflec...
This paper describes revised content-based search experiments in the context of TRECVID 2003 benchmark. Experiments focus on measuring content-based video retrieval performance wi...