Wikipedia is an example of the large, collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. Typically, before these data sets can be used, they must transformed into struc...
In this paper we propose a compressed-domain image enhancement algorithm based on color appearance modeling. We aim at providing an efficient high-quality JPEG color image enhancem...
Mean-Shift (MS) is a powerful non-parametric clustering method. Although good accuracy can be achieved, its computational cost is particularly expensive even on moderate data sets...
The annotation of words and phrases by ontology concepts is extremely helpful for semantic interpretation. However many ontologies, e.g. WordNet, are too fine-grained and even hu...
With the development of emerging social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, security and privacy threats arising from social network analysis bring a risk of disclosure of con...