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CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Tag-based Web Photo Retrieval Improved by Batch Mode Re-Tagging
Web photos in social media sharing websites such as Flickr are generally accompanied by rich but noisy textual descriptions (tags, captions, categories, etc.). In this paper, we p...
Lin Chen, Dong Xu, Wai-Hung Tsang, Jiebo Luo
PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Pressing the Flesh: Sensing Multiple Touch and Finger Pressure on Arbitrary Surfaces
Abstract. This paper identifies a new physical correlate of finger pressure that can be detected and measured visually in a wide variety of situations. When a human finger is press...
Joe Marshall, Tony P. Pridmore, Mike Pound, Steve ...
NOMS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Utility-based placement of dynamic Web applications with fairness goals
Abstract—We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the s...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...
SAC
2000
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Efficient and Flexible Web Access to Art-Historical Image Collections
Modern object-relational database systems are capable of managing multimedia data, e.g. image, video and audio. In this paper we study how such universal database systems can be u...
Matthias Wagner, Stefan Holland, Werner Kieß...
AVI
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Improving access of elderly people to real environments: a semantic based approach
Access to real environments is often conditioned by a number of issues, including the skills of the user (i.e. affected by aging, physical and psychological deficiencies, etc.) an...
Fabio Pittarello, Alessandro De Faveri