The amount of stored information is exploding while, at the same time, tools for accessing relevant information are rather under-developed. Usually, all users have a pre-defined vi...
Tagging has become increasingly popular and useful across various social networks and applications. It allows users to classify and organize resources for improving the retrieval p...
Many of the available image databases have keyword annotations associated with the images. In spite of the availability of good quality low-level visual features that reflect wel...
Data products generated from remotely-sensed, geospatial imagery (RSI) used in emerging areas, such as global climatology, environmental monitoring, land use, and disaster managem...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...