Geographic information systems use databases to map keywords to places. These databases are currently most often created by using a top-down approach based on the geographic defini...
Typhoon inflicts terrible damage due to thunderstorms, violent winds, torrential rain, flooding and extreme high tides. Improving the early typhoon forecast capability is important...
The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...
Indexing file systems is a powerful means of helping users locate documents, software, and other types of data among large repositories. In environments that contain many differen...
A method is presented for automatically extracting key frames from an image sequence. The sequence is divided into clusters of frames with similar appearance, and the most central...