Browsing on Small Displays by Transforming Web Pages into Hierarchically Structured Sub-Pages (2009)
Xiangye Xiao, Qiong Luo, Dan Hong, Hongbo Fu, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma
We propose a new web page transformation method to facilitate web browsing on handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). In our approach, an original web page that does not fit on...
AUTOMATIC VIDEO ANNOTATION THROUGH SEARCH AND MINING (2009)
Emily Moxley, Tao Mei, Xian-sheng Hua, Wei-ying Ma, B. S. Manjunath
Conventional approaches to video annotation predominantly focus on supervised identification of a limited set of concepts, while unsupervised annotation with infinite vocabulary remains unexplored....
Calculating Webpage Importance with Site Structure Constraints (2009)
Hui-min Yan, Tao Qin, Tie-yan Liu, Xu-dong Zhang, Guang Feng, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. PageRank is one of the most popular link analysis algorithms that have shown their effectiveness in web search. However, PageRank only consider hyperlink information. In this paper, we...
Recent advances and challenges of semantic image/video search (2009)
Shih-fu Chang, Wei-ying Ma, Arnold Smeulders
We present an overview of recent advances and major challenges in image and video search, with a specific focus on large-scale semantic concept detection and indexing. Such semantic indexing paradigm...
A Unified Optimization Based Learning Method for Image Retrieval * (2009)
Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Wei-ying Ma, Changshui Zhang, Hong-jiang Zhang
In this paper, an optimization based learning method is proposed for image retrieval from graph model point of view. Firstly, image retrieval is formulated as a regularized optimization problem,...
DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE FOR LARGE SCALE IMAGE-BASED SEARCH (2008)
Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma
In recent years, some computer vision algorithms such as SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) have been employed in image similarity match to perform image-based search applications. However,...
ABSTRACT FRank: A Ranking Method with (2008)
Fidelity Loss, Ming-feng Tsai, Tie-yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-hsi Chen, Wei-ying Ma, ...
Ranking problem is becoming important in many fields, especially in information retrieval (IR). Many machine learning techniques have been proposed for ranking problem, such as RankSVM, RankBoost,...
Similarity Space Projection for Web Image Search and Annotation (2008)
Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Tie-yan Liu, Lei Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
Web image search has been explored and developed in academic as well as commercial areas for over a decade. To measure the similarity between Web images and user queries, most of the existing Web...
Hierarchical Taxonomy Preparation for Text Categorization Using Consistent Bipartite (2008)
Spectral Graph Copartitioning, Bin Gao, Tie-yan Liu, Ieee Computer Society, Guang Feng, Tao Qin, ...
Abstract—Multiclass classification has been investigated for many years in the literature. Recently, the scales of real-world multiclass classification applications have become larger and larger....
Exploring Region Correlation and Context Expansion for Image Retrieval (2008)
Xin-jing Wang, Wei-ying Ma, Xing Li
We explore the statistical correlations between homogeneous regions after image segmentation for improving image retrieval performance. Our proposed approach, called Context Expansion, is analogous...
Web-Data Driven Approach for Bridging the Gap between Image Content and Concept (2008)
Xin-jing Wang, Jian-tao Sun, Wei-ying Ma, Xing Li
Abstract. Due to the semantic gap, current content-based image retrieval framework can not satisfy the complex demands created by a user’s preferences and subjectivity. To retrieve images in a...
Deriving High-Level Concepts Using Fuzzy-ID3 Decision Tree for Image Retrieval (2008)
Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma
To improve the retrieval accuracy of content-based image retrieval, an important task is to reduce the ‘semantic gap’ between low-level image features and the richness of human semantics. In this...
IGroup: A Web Image Search Engine with Semantic Clustering of Search Results (2008)
Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
In this demo, we present IGroup, a Web image search engine that organizes the search results into semantic clusters. Different from all existing Web image search results clustering algorithms that...
Detecting Geographical Serving Area of Web Resources (2008)
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-ying Ma
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applications. Here serving...
A Similarity Reinforcement Algorithm for Heterogeneous Web Pages (2008)
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Fengshan Bai, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Weiguo Fan, ...
Abstract. Many machine learning and data mining algorithms crucially rely on the similarity metrics. However, most early research works such as Vector Space Model or Latent Semantic Index only used...
Abstract MSRA Columbus at GeoCLEF2007 (2008)
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma
time we participate in this event. Since the queries in GeoCLEF2007 are similar to those in GeoCLEF2006, we leverage most of the methods that we used in GeoCLEF2006, including MSRAWhitelist,...
Exploiting pagerank at different block level (2008)
Xue-mei Jiang, Gui-rong Xue, Wen-guan Song, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. In recent years, information retrieval methods focusing on the link analysis have been developed; The PageRank and HITS are two typical ones According to the hierarchical organization of...
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
A new web content structure analysis based on visual representation is proposed in this paper. Many web applications such as information retrieval, information extraction and automatic page...
Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong, Mingjing Li, Wei-ying Ma, Changshui Zhang
In this paper, we propose a transductive learning method for content-based image retrieval: Multiple Random Walk (MRW). Its basic idea is to construct two generative models by means of Markov random...
Adaptive User Profile Model and Collaborative Filtering for Personalized News (2008)
Jue Wang, Zhiwei Li, Jinyi Yao, Zengqi Sun, Mingjing Li, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. In recent years, personalized news recommendation has received increasing attention in IR community. The core problem of personalized recommendation is to model and track users ’...
ABSTRACT ReCoM: Reinforcement Clustering of Multi-Type Interrelated Data Objects (2008)
Jidong Wang, Huajun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Hongjun Lu, Li Tao, Wei-ying Ma
Most existing clustering algorithms cluster highly related data objects such as Web pages and Web users separately. The interrelation among different types of data objects is either not considered,...
A Scalable Supervised Algorithm for Dimensionality Reduction on Streaming Data * (2008)
Jun Yan, Benyu Zhang, Shuicheng Yan, Ning Liu, Qiang Yang, Qiansheng Cheng, ...
Algorithms on streaming data have attracted increasing attention in the past decade. Among them, dimensionality reduction algorithms are greatly interesting due to the desirability of real tasks....
Manifold-Ranking Based Keyword Propagation for Image Retrieval * (2008)
Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, Changshui Zhang
In this paper, a novel keyword propagation method is proposed for image retrieval based on a recently developed manifold-ranking algorithm. In contrast to existing methods which train a binary
Li-qun Chen, Xing Xie, Xin Fan, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, He-qin Zhou
Part of this work was originally presented at the 9th International
Wei Lai, Xiao-dong Gu, Ren-hua Wang, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhanga
Traditional video coding and streaming algorithms do not been fully utilized in content information of video in bit allocation and adaptation. This paper proposes a content-based video streaming...
IGroup: A Web Image Search Engine with Semantic Clustering of Search Results (2008)
Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
In this demo, we present IGroup, a Web image search engine that organizes the search results into semantic clusters. Different from all existing Web image search results clustering algorithms that...
Wei-ying Ma, Ilja Bedner, Grace Chang, Allan Kuchinsky, Hongjiang Zhang
framework for adaptive content delivery in heterogeneous
Gui-rong Xue, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, Chao-jun Lu
Current search engines generally employ link analysis techniques to web-page re-ranking. However, the same techniques are problematic in small webs, such as websites or intranet webs, because the...
Maximizing Information Throughput for Multimedia Browsing on Small Displays. Procs (2008)
Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
As a great many of new devices with diverse capabilities are making a population boom, their limited display sizes become the major obstacle that has undermined the usefulness of these devices for...
Exploring URL Hit Priors for Web Search (2008)
Ruihua Song, Guomao Xin, Shuming Shi, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. URL usually contains meaningful information for measuring the relevance of a Web page to a query in Web search. Some existing works utilize URL depth priors (i.e. the probability of being a...
Muyuan Wang, Zhiwei Li, Lie Lu, Wei-ying Ma
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for information of a...
EXPLORING STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL (2008)
Xin-jing Wang, Wei-ying Ma, Xing Li
Bridging the cognitive gap in image retrieval has been an active research direction in recent years, of which a key challenge is to get enough training data to learn the mapping functions from...
Lee Wang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Josh Forman, Yansheng Lu, Wei-ying Ma, ...
Accurately and effectively detecting the locations where search queries are truly about has huge potential impact on increasing search relevance. In this paper, we define a search query’s dominant...
General Terms Algorithms, Performance (2008)
Wei-ying Ma, Qi-cai He, Xing Li
In this paper, we propose a Web image search result organizing method to facilitate user browsing. We formalize this problem as a salient image region pattern extraction problem. Given the images...
LogMiningtoImprovethePerformanceofSiteSearch ∗ (2008)
Gui-rong Xue, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Chao-jun Lu
In despite of the popularity of current search engines, people still suffer search failure and lots of non-relevant results when finding some specific information from a specific website. This is...
Research Track Paper Web Object Indexing Using Domain Knowledge (2008)
Muyuan Wang, Zhiwei Li, Lie Lu, Wei-ying Ma
A web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). In many cases, users would like to search...
Level-biased Statistics in the Hierarchical Structure of the Web (2008)
Guang Feng, Tie-yan Liu, Xu-dong Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. In the literature of web search and mining, researchers used to consider the World Wide Web as a flat network, in which each page as well as each hyperlink is treated identically. However,...
AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION OF LOCATION INFORMATION FOR WWW IMAGES (2008)
Zhigang Hua, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Hanqing Lu, Wei-ying Ma
Currently, a crucial challenge is raised on how to manage a large amount of images on the Web. Due to a real synergy between an image and its location, we propose an automatic solution to annotate...
Similarity Spreading: A Unified Framework for Similarity Calculation of Interrelated Objects (2008)
Gui-rong Xue, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Yong Yu
In many Web search applications, similarities between objects of one type (say, queries) can be affected by the similarities between their interrelated objects of another type (say, Web pages), and...
Search and Retrieval—information filtering, retrieval models (2008)
Kai Yu, Wei-ying Ma, Volker Tresp, Zhao Xu, Xiaofei He, Hongjiang Zhang, ...
This paper aims to address the problem of art image retrieval (AIR), which aims to help users find their favorite painting images. AIR is of great interests to us because of its application...
Optimizing Web Search using Spreading Activation on the Clickthrough Data (2008)
Gui-rong Xue, Shen Huang, Yong Yu, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a mining algorithm to utilize the user clickthrough data to improve search performance. The algorithm first explores the relationship between queries and Web pages...
Image Annotation Using Search and Mining Technologies 1 (2008)
Xin-jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Wei-ying Ma
In this paper, we present a novel solution to the image annotation problem which annotates images using search and data mining technologies. An accurate keyword is required to initialize this...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embedded in static Web...
A Systematic Study of Parameter Correlations in Large Scale Duplicate Document Detection (2008)
Abstract. Although much work has been done on duplicate document detection (DDD) and its applications, we observe the absence of a systematic study of the performance and scalability of large-scale...
A Unified Learning Paradigm for Large-scale Personalized Information Management (2008)
Edward Y. Chang, Xinjing Wang, Wei-ying Ma, Michael R. Lyu
Statistical-learning approaches such as unsupervised learning, supervised learning, active learning, and reinforcement learning have generally been separately studied and applied to solve application...
Ying Liu, Wei-ying Ma, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojuti Lu
Ahstract: Region-based image retrieval has been an active I-csenrch area. Texture is one of the important features to dcsciibt: regions In this paper, an efficient texture feature cstraction...
ABSTRACT Learning Block Importance Models for Web Pages (2008)
Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Previous work shows that a web page can be partitioned into multiple segments or blocks, and often the importance of those blocks in a page is not equivalent. Also, it has been proven that...
Xin-jing Wang, Wei-ying Ma, Lei Zhang, Xing Li
Image clustering is an important research topic which contributes to a wide range of applications. Traditional image clustering approaches are based on image content features only, while content...
Le Chen, Ke-feng Deng, Wei-ying Ma, Feng Jing
Vertical search is a promising direction as it leverages domainspecific knowledge and can provide more precise information for users. In this paper, we study the Web object-ranking problem, one of...
Yizhou Lu, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Zheng Chen, Yi Liu, Michael R. Lyu, ...
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Xin-jing Wang, Wei-ying Ma, Gui-rong Xue, Xing Li
In this paper, we propose an iterative similarity propagation approach to explore the inter-relationships between Web images and their textual annotations for image retrieval. By considering Web...
Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities (2008)
Zhiwei Li, Xing Xie, Lei Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. Although content-based image retrieval has been studied for decades, most commercial image search engines are still text-based. However, there is a growing demand for techniques to support...
Web Resource Geographic Location Classification (2008)
And Detection Chuang, Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Yansheng Lu, Wei-ying Ma
Rapid pervasion of the web into users' daily lives has put much importance on capturing location-specific information on the web, due to the fact that most human activities occur locally around...
A Systematic Study of Parameter Correlations in (2008)
Large Scale Duplicate, Shaozhi Ye, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Although much work has been done on duplicate document detection (DDD) and its applications, we observe the absence of a systematic study of the performance and scalability of large-scale DDD. It is...
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1007/s00530-003-0085-4 (2008)
Multimedia Systems Multimedia, Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Hongjiang Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
A novel idea and framework of ubiquitous media agents is presented for managing personal multimedia objects. Media agents are intelligent systems that can autonomously do the following tasks. They...
Hanghang Tong, Hanghang Tong, Spiros Papadimitriou, Philip S. Yu, Christos Faloutsos Fast, Hanghang Tong, ...
Zhang. Manifold-Ranking Based Keyword Propagation for Image Retrieval. EURASIP
Hang Cui, Ji-rong Wen, Jian-yun Nie, Wei-ying Ma
Queries to search engines on the Web are usually short. They do not provide sufficient indications for an effective selection of relevant documents. Previous research has proposed the utilization of...
User Modeling for Building Personalized Web Assistants ABSTRACT (2007)
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Fan Lin, Peng Xiao, Liu Yin, Bin Lin, ...
We proposed several new approaches to extracting features from the user visited web pages for modeling the user’s long- and short-term preferences and interests. The constructed user models are...
Xiaoming Sun, Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Wei-ying Ma
A novel global optimization method referred to as the multi-step dynamic n-gram model is proposed for predicting the user’s next intended action while he/she is surfing the Web. Unlike the...
Personally Inherited Features of Web Pages (2007)
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Fan Lin, Peng Xiao, Yin Liu, Bin Lin, ...
Inherited features are found among the pages on the same navigation paths a user has accessed and used to model her preferences and interests. The constructed user models can be used to build...
ABSTRACT ReCoM: Reinforcement Clustering of Multi-Type Interrelated Data Objects (2007)
Jidong Wang, Huajun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Hongjun Lu, Li Tao, Wei-ying Ma
Most existing clustering algorithms cluster highly related data objects such as Web pages and Web users separately. The interrelation among different types of data objects is either not considered,...
Search and Retrieval—information filtering, retrieval models (2007)
Kai Yu, Wei-ying Ma, Volker Tresp, Zhao Xu, Xiaofei He, Hongjiang Zhang, ...
This paper aims to address the problem of art image retrieval (AIR), which aims to help users find their favorite painting images. AIR is of great interests to us because of its application...
Patrick Baudisch, Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Wei-ying Ma
Overview visualizations for small-screen web browsers were designed to provide users with visual context and to allow them to rapidly zoom in on tiles of relevant content. Given that content in the...
Maximizing Information Throughput for Multimedia Browsing on Small Displays. Procs (2007)
Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
As a great many of new devices with diverse capabilities are making a population boom, their limited display sizes become the major obstacle that has undermined the usefulness of these devices for...
Ro Jaimes, Mike Christel, Sébastien Gilles, Ramesh Sarukkai, Wei-ying Ma
In this paper, the participants of the panel at the 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval answer questions about what multimedia is, how MIR is different from other...
Frank: A ranking method with fidelity loss (2007)
Ming-feng Tsai, Tie-yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-hsi Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Ranking problem is becoming increasingly important in many applications, especially in information retrieval. Many machine learning technologies have been proposed to solve this problem, such as...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embedded in static Web...
Image Annotation by Large-Scale Content-based Image Retrieval (2006)
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-ying Ma
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target at solving the...
Automated Known Problem Diagnosis with Event Traces (2006)
Chun Yuan, Ni Lao, Ji-rong Wen, Jiwei Li, Zheng Zhang, Yi-min Wang, ...
Computer problem diagnosis remains a serious challenge to users and support professionals. Traditional troubleshooting methods relying heavily on human intervention make the process inefficient and...
Automated Known Problem Diagnosis with Event Traces (2006)
Chun Yuan, Ni Lao, Ji-rong Wen, Jiwei Li, Zheng Zhang, Yi-min Wang, ...
Computer problem diagnosis remains a serious challenge to users and support professionals. Traditional troubleshooting methods relying heavily on human intervention make the process inefficient and...
Image Annotation by Large-Scale Content-based Image Retrieval (2006)
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-ying Ma
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target at solving the...
AnnoSearch: Image Auto-Annotation by Search (2006)
Xin-jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Feng Jing, Wei-ying Ma
Although it has been studied for several years by computer vision and machine learning communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we present AnnoSearch, a novel way to...
Enjoyphoto - a vertical image search engine for enjoying high-quality photos (2006)
Lei Zhang, Le Chen, Feng Jing, Kefeng Deng, Wei-ying Ma
In this paper, we propose building a vertical image search engine called EnjoyPhoto that leverages rich metadata from various photo forum web sites to meet users ’ requirements for enjoying...
Igroup: Web image search results clustering (2006)
Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
In this paper, we propose, IGroup, an efficient and effective algorithm that organizes Web image search results into clusters. IGroup is different from all existing Web image search results...
Learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval (2006)
Wei Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-ying Ma
Relevant Component Analysis (RCA) has been proposed for learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval. However, RCA has two important disadvantages. One is the lack of...
Image Annotation by Large-Scale Content-based Image Retrieval (2006)
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-ying Ma
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target at solving the...
Manifold-Ranking-Based Keyword Propagation for Image Retrieval (2006)
Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Changshui Zhang
A novel keyword propagation method is proposed for image retrieval based on a recently developed manifold-ranking algorithm. In contrast to existing methods which train a binary classifier for each...
Study on texture feature extraction in region-based image retrieval system (2006)
Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhangt, Guojun Lul, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract image. In the right image, the 'sand ' region is usually what users are interested in. T'exture is an important feature to describe images. 7hough lots of work has been done...
Bin Gao, Tie-yan Liu, Xin Zheng, Qian-sheng Cheng, Wei-ying Ma
Heterogeneous data co-clustering has attracted more and more attention in recent years due to its high impact on various applications. While the co-clustering algorithms for two types of...
Improving web search results using affinity graph (2005)
Benyu Zhang, Hua Li, Yi Liu, Lei Ji, Wensi Xi, Weiguo Fan, ...
In this paper, we propose a novel ranking scheme named Affinity Ranking (AR) to re-rank search results by optimizing two metrics: (1) diversity-- which indicates the variance of topics in a group of...
Learning no-reference quality metric by examples (2005)
Hanghang Tong, Mingjing Li, Hong-jiang Zhang, Changshui Zhang, Jingrui He, Wei-ying Ma
In this paper, a novel learning based method is proposed for No-Reference image quality assessment. Instead of examining the exact prior knowledge for the given type of distortion and finding a...
Learning user interest for image browsing on small-form-factor devices (2005)
Xing Xie, Hao Liu, Simon Goumaz, Wei-ying Ma
Mobile devices which can capture and view pictures are becoming increasingly common in our life. The limitation of these small-form-factor devices makes the user experience of image browsing quite...
An Experimental Study on Large-Scale Web Categorization Tie-Yan LIU (2005)
Tie-yan Liu, Yiming Yang Hao, Hao Wan, Qian Zhou, Bin Gao, Hua-jun Zeng, ...
Taxonomies of the Web typically have hundreds of thousands of categories and skewed category distribution over documents. It is not clear whether existing text classification technologies can perform...
Object-Level Ranking: Bringing Order to Web Objects (2005)
Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level. We collect Web...
Representing Personal Web Information Using a Topic-Oriented Interface (2005)
Zhigang Hua, Hao Liu, Xing Xie, Hanqing Lu, Wei-ying Ma
Nowadays, Web activities have become daily practice for people. It is therefore essential to organize and present this continuously increasing Web information in a more usable manner. In this paper,...
Gravitationbased model for information retrieval (extended version (2005)
Shuming Shi, Ji-rong Wen, Qing Yu, Ruihua Song, Wei-ying Ma
This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from concepts of...
Region-Based Image Retrieval with High-Level Semantic Color Names (2005)
Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma
Performance of traditional content-based image retrieval systems is far from user’s expectation due to the ‘semantic gap ’ between low-level visual features and the richness of human semantics....
2D conditional random fields for web information extraction (2005)
Zaiqing Nie, Ji-rong Wen, Bo Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
The Web contains an abundance of useful semistructured information about real world objects, and our empirical study shows that strong sequence characteristics exist for Web information about objects...
Support vector machines classification with a very large-scale taxonomy (2005)
Tie-yan Liu, Yiming Yang, Hao Wan, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Very large-scale classification taxonomies typically have hundreds
An Implementation and Experimental (2005)
Zaiqing Nie, Yuanzhi Zhang, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level. We collect Web...
Learning user interest for image browsing on small-form-factor devices (2005)
Xing Xie, Hao Liu, Simon Goumaz, Wei-ying Ma
Mobile devices which can capture and view pictures are becoming increasingly common in our life. The limitation of these small-form-factor devices makes the user experience of image browsing quite...
Sports video mining with mosaic (2005)
Tao Mei, Yu-fei Ma, He-qin Zhou, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
Video is an information-intensive media with much redundancy. Therefore, it is desirable to be able to mine structure or semantics of video data for efficient browsing, summarization and highlight...
Web image clustering by consistent utilization of visual features and surrounding texts (2005)
Bin Gao, Tie-yan Liu, Tao Qin, Xin Zheng, Qian-sheng Cheng, Wei-ying Ma
Image clustering, an important technology for image processing, has been actively researched for a long period of time. Especially in recent years, with the explosive growth of the Web, image...
Gravitationbased model for information retrieval (extended version (2005)
Shuming Shi, Ji-rong Wen, Qing Yu, Ruihua Song, Wei-ying Ma
This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from concepts of...
Improving web search results using affinity graph (2005)
Benyu Zhang, Hua Li, Yi Liu, Lei Ji, Wensi Xi, Weiguo Fan, ...
In this paper, we propose a novel ranking scheme named Affinity Ranking (AR) to re-rank search results by optimizing two metrics: (1) diversity-- which indicates the variance of topics in a group of...
Level-based link analysis (2005)
Guang Feng, Tie-yan Liu, Xu-dong Zhang, Tao Qin, Bin Gao, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. In order to get high-quality web pages, search engines often resort retrieval pages by their ranks. The rank is a kind of measurement of importance of pages. Famous ranking algorithms,...
Graph based multi-modality learning (2005)
Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He, Mingjing Li, Changshui Zhang, Wei-ying Ma
To better understand the content of multimedia, a lot of research efforts have been made on how to learn from multi-modal feature. In this paper, it is studied from a graph point of view: each kind...
A study of relevance propagation for web search (2005)
Tao Qin, Tie-yan Liu, Xu-dong Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Different from traditional information retrieval, both content and structure are critical to the success of Web information retrieval. In recent years, many relevance propagation techniques have been...
DOI 10.1007/s00530-005-0188-1 REGULAR PAPER (2005)
Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Li-qun Chen, Wei-ying Ma, C. Wang
Abstract The limited display size of current small Internet devices is becoming a serious obstacle to information access. In this paper, we introduce a Document REpresentation for Scalable Structures...
Ocfs: Optimal orthogonal centroid feature selection for text categorization (2005)
Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Benyu Zhang, Shuicheng Yan, Zheng Chen, Qiansheng Cheng, ...
ABSTRACT 1 Text categorization is an important research area in many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. To save the storage space and computation time in text categorization, efficient and...
A probabilistic model for retrospective news event detection (2005)
Zhiwei Li, Mingjing Li, Wei-ying Ma
Retrospective news event detection (RED) is defined as the discovery of previously unidentified events in historical news corpus. Although both the contents and time information of news articles are...
Gravitationbased model for information retrieval (extended version (2005)
Shuming Shi, Ji-rong Wen, Qing Yu, Ruihua Song, Wei-ying Ma
This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from concepts of...
A study of relevance propagation for web search (2005)
Tao Qin, Tie-yan Liu, Xu-dong Zhang, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Different from traditional information retrieval, both content and structure are critical to the success of Web information retrieval. In recent years, many relevance propagation techniques have been...
Efficient browsing of web search results on mobile devices based on block importance model (2005)
Xing Xie, Gengxin Miao, Ruihua Song, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
It is expected that more and more people will search the web when they are on the move. Though conventional search engines can be directly visited from mobile devices with web browsing capabilities,...
Deriving High-Level Concepts Using Fuzzy-ID3 Decision Tree for Image Retrieval (2005)
Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma
To improve the retrieval accuracy of content-based image retrieval, an important task is to reduce the ‘semantic gap’ between low-level image features and the richness of human semantics. In this...
Learning to cluster web search results (2004)
Hua-jun Zeng, Qi-cai He, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Jinwen Ma
Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users ' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't generate clusters...
Wensi Xi, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Yizhou Lu, Shuicheng Yan, Wei-ying Ma, ...
Web link analysis has proven to be a significant enhancement for quality based web search. Most existing links can be classified into two categories: intra-type links (e.g., web hyperlinks), which...
Yiqun Hu, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma, Liang-tien Chia, Deepu Rajan
Abstract. Detection of salient regions in images is useful for object based image retrieval and browsing applications. This task can be done using methods based on the human visual attention model...
Mining ratio rules via principal sparse non-negative matrix factorization (2004)
Chenyong Hu, Benyu Zhang, Shuicheng Yan, Qiang Yang, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen, ...
Association rules are traditionally designed to capture statistical relationship among itemsets in a given database. To additionally capture the quantitative association knowledge, F.Korn et al...
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentation algorithms to...
Organizing WWW Images Based on The Analysis of Page Layout and Web Link Structure (2004)
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Ji-rong Wen, Hongjiang Zhang
Due to the rapid growth of the number of digital images on the Web, there is an increasing demand for effective and efficient method for organizing and retrieving the images available. This paper...
Block-level Link Analysis (2004)
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis algorithms treat a web...
The powerrank web link analysis algorithm (2004)
Yizhou Lu, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Zheng Chen, Yi Liu, Michael R. Lyu, ...
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Learning an image manifold for retrieval (2004)
Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
We consider the problem of learning a mapping function from low-level feature space to high-level semantic space. Under the assumption that the data lie on a submanifold embedded in a high...
IMMC: Incremental Maximum Margin Criterion (2004)
Jun Yan, Jun Yan Benyu, Shuicheng Yan, Qiang Yang, Hua Li, Zheng Chen, ...
Subspace learning approaches have attracted much attention in academia recently. However, the classical batch algorithms no longer satisfy the applications on streaming data or large-scale data. To...
J.X. Yu, X. Lin, H. Lu, and Y. Zhang (Eds.): APWeb 2004, LNCS 3007, pp. 48--58, 2004. (2004)
Shaozhi Ye, Ruihua Song, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Duplication of Web pages greatly hurts the perceived relevance of a search engine. Existing methods for detecting duplicated Web pages can be classified into two categories, i.e. offline and online...
Patrick Baudisch, Xing Xie, Chong Wang, Wei-ying Ma
Overview visualizations for small-screen web browsers were designed to provide users with visual context and to allow them to rapidly zoom in on tiles of relevant content. Given that content in the...
A Query-Dependent Duplicate Detection Approach for Large Scale Search Engines (2004)
Shaozhi Ye, Ruihua Song, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. Duplication of Web pages greatly hurts the perceived relevance of a search engine. Existing methods for detecting duplicated Web pages can be classified into two categories, i.e. offline...
The Co-Evolution of Systems and (2004)
Shaozhi Ye, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Under consideration for publication in Knowledge and Information
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentation algorithms to...
Organizing WWW Images Based on The Analysis of Page Layout and Web Link Structure (2004)
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Ji-rong Wen, Hongjiang Zhang
Due to the rapid growth of the number of digital images on the Web, there is an increasing demand for effective and efficient method for organizing and retrieving the images available. This paper...
Locality preserving clustering for image database (2004)
Xin Zheng, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Xueyin Lin
It is important and challenging to make the growing image repositories easy to search and browse. Image clustering is a technique that helps in several ways, including image data preprocessing, user...
Learning an image manifold for retrieval (2004)
Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
We consider the problem of learning a mapping function from low-level feature space to high-level semantic space. Under the assumption that the data lie on a submanifold embedded in a high...
Learning to cluster web search results (2004)
Hua-jun Zeng, Qi-cai He, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Jinwen Ma
Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users ' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't generate clusters...
Attention Model Based Progressive Image Transmission (2004)
Yusuo Hu, Xing Xie, Zonghai Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Progressive image transmission provides a convenient user interface when images are transmitted slowly. However, most of the existing PIT techniques only considered the objective quality of the...
Multi-Type Features based Web Document Clustering (2004)
Shen Huang, Gui-rong Xue, Ben-yu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Yong Yu, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. Clustering has been demonstrated as a feasible way to explore the contents of document collection and organize search engine results. For this task, many features of Web page, such as...
Affinity Rank: A New Scheme for Efficient Web Search (2004)
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-ying Ma
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative documents. In this...
Extraction of Texture Features from Arbitrary-Shaped Regions for Image Retrieval (2004)
Ying Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, Wei-ying Ma
Lots of work has been done in texture feature extraction for rectangular images, but not as much attention has been paid to the arbitrary-shaped regions available in region-based image retrieval...
TSSP: A Reinforcement Algorithm to Find Related Papers (2004)
Shen Huang, Gui-rong Xue, Ben-yu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Yong Yu, Wei-ying Ma
Content analysis and citation analysis are two common methods in recommending system. Compared with content analysis, citation analysis can discover more implicitly related papers. However, the...
Region-based Image Retrieval with Perceptual Colors (2004)
Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. Due to the ‘semantic gap ’ between low-level visual features and the rich semantics in user’s mind, performance of traditional contentbased image retrieval systems is far from...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Zhiwei Li, Wei-ying Ma, Ji-rong Wen
We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the results into different...
Affinity Rank: A New Scheme for Efficient Web Search (2004)
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-ying Ma
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative documents. In this...
GE-CKO: A Method to Optimize Composite Kernels for Web Page Classification (2004)
Jian-tao Sun, Ben-yu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Yu-chang Lu, Chun-yi Shi, Wei-ying Ma
Most of current researches on Web page classification focus on leveraging heterogeneous features such as plain text, hyperlinks and anchor texts in an effective and efficient way. Composite kernel...
Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
Due to the rapid growth of the number of digital images on the Web, there is an increasing demand for effective and efficient method for organizing and retrieving the images available. This paper...
Improving text classification using local latent semantic indexing (2004)
Tao Liu, Zheng Chen, Benyu Zhang, Wei-ying Ma, Gongyi Wu
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) has been shown to be extremely useful in information retrieval, but it is not an optimal representation for text classification. It always drops the text classification...
Block-level Link Analysis (2004)
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis algorithms treat a web...
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Zhiwei Li, Wei-ying Ma, Ji-rong Wen
We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the results into different...
Effective Browsing of Web Image Search Results (2004)
Hao Liu, Xing Xie, Xiaoou Tang, Zhi-wei Li, Wei-ying Ma
The rapid development of web image search engines has enabled users to search hundred million of images available on the Web. However, due to the unsatisfactory performance of current search...
ImageSeer: Clustering and Searching WWW Images (2004)
Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
Due to the rapid growth of the number of digital images on the Web, there is an increasing demand for effective and efficient method for organizing and retrieving the images available. This paper...
Learning similarity measures in non-orthogonal space (2004)
Ning Liu, Benyu Zhang, Jun Yan, Qiang Yang, Shuicheng Yan, Zheng Chen, ...
Many machine learning and data mining algorithms crucially rely on the similarity metrics. The Cosine similarity, which calculates the inner product of two normalized feature vectors, is one of the...
Learning Important Models for Web Page Blocks based on Layout and Content Analysis (2004)
Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Previous work shows that a web page can be partitioned into multiple segments or blocks, and often the importance of those blocks in a page is not equivalent. It has also been proven that...
A Multi-paradigm Querying Approach for a Generic Multimedia Database Management System (2003)
Ji-rong Wen, Qing Li, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
To truly meet the requirements of multimedia database (MMDB) management, an integrated framework for modeling, managing and retrieving various kinds of media data in a uniform way is necessary....
Improving pseudo-relevance feedback in web information retrieval using web page segmentation (2003)
Shipeng Yu, Deng Cai, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant information from...
1 VIPS: a Vision-based Page Segmentation Algorithm (2003)
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma, Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, ...
A new web content structure analysis based on visual representation is proposed in this paper. Many web applications such as information retrieval, information extraction and automatic page...
Learning a Semantic Space From User’s Relevance Feedback for Image Retrieval (2003)
Xiaofei He, Oliver King, Wei-ying Ma, Mingjing Li, Hong-jiang Zhang, Senior Member
Abstract—As current methods for content-based retrieval are incapable of capturing the semantics of images, we experiment with using spectral methods to infer a semantic space from user’s...
Visual attention based image browsing on mobile devices (2003)
Xin Fan, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, He-qin Zhou
Images have become more and more common in mobile communications. People now can easily take and exchange pictures on the move using their mobile devices and digital cameras. However, a crucial...
Enabling Multimedia Adaptation Services in Content Delivery Networks. IMMCN’03 (2003)
Wei-ying Ma, Xing Xie, Chun Yuan, Yu Chen, Zheng Zhang, Hong-jiang Zhang
Content delivery networks (CDNs) provide a large number of caches and storage devices at the edge of network to push content closer to the user. To cope with the growing diversity and heterogeneity...
A Multi-paradigm Querying Approach for a Generic Multimedia Database Management System (2003)
Ji-rong Wen, Qing Li, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
To truly meet the requirements of multimedia database (MMDB) management, an integrated framework for modeling, managing and retrieving various kinds of media data in a uniform way is necessary....
ImageRank: spectral techniques for structural analysis of image database (2003)
Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Hongjiang Zhang
Drawing on the correspondence between spectral clustering, spectral dimensionality reduction, and the connections to the Markov Chain theory, we present a novel unified framework for structural...
Query Expansion by Mining User Logs (2003)
Hang Cui, Ji-rong Wen, Jian-yun Nie, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract—Queries to search engines on the Web are usually short. They do not provide sufficient evidence for an effective selection of relevant documents. Previous research has proposed the...
Building a Web Thesaurus from Web Link Structure (2003)
Zheng Chen, Shengping Liu, Liu Wenyin, Geguang Pu, Wei-ying Ma
Thesaurus has been widely used in many applications, including information retrieval, natural language processing, and question answering. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to automatically...
CBC: Clustering Based Text Classification (2003)
Requiring Minimal Labeled, Hua-jun Zeng, Xuan-hui Wang, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma
Semi-supervised learning methods construct classifiers using both labeled and unlabeled training data samples. While unlabeled data samples can help to improve the accuracy of trained models to...
Video Summarization Based On User Log Enhanced Link Analysis (2003)
Efficient video data management calls for intelligent video summarization tools that automatically generate concise video summaries for fast skimming and browsing. Traditional video summarization...
Query Expansion by Mining User Logs (2003)
Hang Cui, Ji-rong Wen, Jian-yun Nie, Wei-ying Ma
Queries to search engines on the Web are usually short. They do not provide sufficient information for an effective selection of relevant documents. Previous research has proposed the utilization of...
Improving pseudo-relevance feedback in web information retrieval using web page segmentation (2003)
Shipeng Yu, Deng Cai, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant information from...
Image adaptation based on attention model for small-form factor devices (2003)
Li-qun Chen, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, He-qin Zhou
Image adaptation, one of the essential problems in adaptive content delivery for universal access, has been actively explored for some time. Most existing approaches have focused on generic...
Extracting content structure for web pages based on visual representation (2003)
Deng Cai, Shipeng Yu, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma
Abstract. A new web content structure based on visual representation is proposed in this paper. Many web applications such as information retrieval, information extraction and automatic page...
Kai Yu, Anton Schwaighofer, Volker Tresp, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang
Collaborative filtering (CF) and contentbased filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications, both approaches having their individual strengths and weaknesses. This paper...
Automatic browsing of large pictures on mobile devices (2003)
Hao Liu, Xing Xie, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang
Pictures have become increasingly common and popular in mobile communications. However, due to the limitation of mobile devices, there is a need to develop new technologies to facilitate the browsing...
Looking into Video Frames on Small Displays (2003)
Xin Fan, Xing Xie, He-qin Zhou, Wei-ying Ma
With the growing popularity of personal digital assistants and smart phones, people have become enthusiastic to watch videos through these mobile devices. However, a crucial challenge is to provide a...
Learning similarity measure for natural image retrieval with relevance feedback (2002)
Guo-dong Guo, Anil K. Jain, Wei-ying Ma, Hong-jiang Zhang, Senior Member
Abstract—A new scheme of learning similarity measure is proposed for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). It learns a boundary that separates the images in the database into two clusters. Images...
Ranking User’s Relevance to a Topic through Link Analysis on Web Logs (2002)
Jidong Wang, Zheng Chen, Li Tao, Wei-ying Ma, Liu Wenyin
Computing the web-user’s relevance to a give topic is an important task for any personalization service on the Web. Since the interest and preference of a web-user are revealed in his Web browsing...
User intention modeling in web applications using data mining (2002)
Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Huan Liu, Yin Liu, Wei-ying Ma
The problem of inferring a user’s intentions in Machine–Human Interaction has been the key research issue for providing personalized experiences and services. In this paper, we propose novel...
Log Mining to Improve the Performance of Site Search (2002)
Gui-rong Xue, Hua-jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Chao-jun Lu
Despite of the popularity of global search engines, people still suffer from low accuracy of site search. The primary reason lies in the difference of link structures and data scale between global...
Learning and inferring a semantic space from user’s relevance feedback for image retrieval (2002)
Xiaofei He, Wei-ying Ma, Oliver King, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang
As current methods for content-based retrieval are incapable of capturing the semantics of images, we experiment with using spectral methods to infer a semantic space from user’s relevance...
A Unified Framework for Web Link Analysis (2002)
Zheng Chen, Li Tao, Jidong Wang, Liu Wenyin, Wei-ying Ma
Web link analysis has been proved to provide significant enhancement to the precision of web search in practice. Among existing approaches, Kleinberg’s HITS and Google’s PageRank are the two most...
Visual Based Content Understanding towards Web Adaptation (2002)
Xiao-dong Gu, Jinlin Chen, Wei-ying Ma, Guo-liang Chen
Abstract. Web content structure is proposed to facilitate automatic web page adaptation in this paper. By identifying the logic relationship of web content based on layout information, web content...
A Concentric Model for Community Mining in Graph Structures (2002)
Wei-Jun Zhou, Wen-jun Zhou, Ji-rong Wen, Ji-rong Wen, Wei-ying Ma, Wei-ying Ma, ...
Discovering communities from a graph structure such as the Web has become an interesting research problem recently. In this paper, comparing with the state-of-the-art authority detecting and graph...
Probabilistic Query Expansion Using Query Logs (2002)
Hang Cui, Ji-rong Wen, Jian-yun Nie, Wei-ying Ma
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in traditional information...
Probabilistic Query Expansion Using Query Logs (2002)
Hang Cui, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
Query expansion has long been suggested as an effective way to resolve the short query and word mismatching problems. A number of query expansion methods have been proposed in the traditional...
Content Services Network: The Architecture and Protocols (2001)
Content delivery networks (CDNs) can be viewed as application-specific overlay networks that make web caching an infrastructure service accessible to any content provider. As the Internet continues...
EdgeFlow: a technique for boundary detection and image segmentation (2000)
Abstract—A novel boundary detection scheme based on “edge flow ” is proposed in this paper. This scheme utilizes a predictive coding model to identify the direction of change in color and...
EdgeFlow: A Technique for Boundary Detection and Image Segmentation (2000)
A novel boundary detection scheme based on "edge flow" is proposed in this paper. This scheme utilizes a predictive coding model to identify the direction of change in color and texture at...
EdgeFlow: A Technique for Boundary Detection (2000)
And Image Segmentation, Wei-ying Ma, B. S. Manjunath
A novel boundary detection scheme based on "edge flow" is proposed in this paper. This scheme utilizes a predictive coding model to identify the direction of change in color and texture at...
A texture thesaurus for browsing large aerial photographs (1998)
A texture-based image retrieval system for browsing In this article, we will demonstrate that texture could large-scale aerial photographs is presented. The salient components of this system include...
NeTra: a toolbox for navigating large image databases (1997)
Abstract. We present here an implementation of NeTra, a prototype image retrieval system that uses color, texture, shape and spatial location information in segmented image regions to search and...
Xing Xie, Hao Liu, Wei-ying Ma, Senior Member, Hong-jiang Zhang
Abstract—Pictures have become increasingly common and popular in mobile communications. However, due to the limitation of mobile devices, there is a need to develop new technologies to facilitate...