It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
Traditionally, research about trust assumes a single type of trust between users. However, trust, as a social concept, inherently has many facets indicating multiple and heterogen...
An ideal outcome of pattern mining is a small set of informative patterns, containing no redundancy or noise, that identifies the key structure of the data at hand. Standard freq...
The state-of-the-art object detection algorithm learns a binary classifier to differentiate the foreground object from the background. Since the detection algorithm exhaustively s...
Diffuse interreflections mean that surface shading and shape are related in ways that are difficult to untangle; in particular, distant and invisible surfaces may affect the shadi...