Segmentation of video foreground objects from background has many important applications, such as human computer interaction, video compression, multimedia content editing and man...
Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
More and more users are contributing and sharing more and more contents on the Web via the use of content hosting sites and social media services. These user–generated contents ...
The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...