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...
Cheng, Xiao-Dong, Lu, Wei-Guo, Ye, Feng, Wan, Xiao-Yun, Xie, Xing
Abstract Background Platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is new therapeutic strategy for locally advanced cervical carcinoma, but the variables used to predict NAC response are still...
Qiu, Liqian, Zhao, Yun, Binns, Colin W, Lee, Andy H, Xie, Xing
Abstract Background Rates of exclusive breastfeeding in China are relatively low and below national targets. The aim of this study was to document the factors that influence exclusive breastfeeding...
Understanding User Behavior Geospatially (2009)
Understanding users is an essential task for providing personal Web experience and targeted advertisements. Current commercial or research systems try to understand users from their online behaviors,...
Deveault, Catherine, Qian, Jian Hua, Chebaro, Wafaa, Ao, Asangla, Gilbert, Lucy, Mehio, Amira, ...
Hydatidiform mole is an aberrant pregnancy with abnormal embryonic development and hydropic placental villi. Common moles are sporadic, not recurrent and affect one in every 1500 pregnancies in...
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,...
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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
Qiu, Liqian, Zhao, Yun, Binns, Colin W, Lee, Andy H, Xie, Xing
Abstract Background Breastfeeding is the basis for appropriate nutrition for infants and is strongly supported by the Ministry of Health in China. However, there are differences in infant feeding...
Thomas M, Fredric Gey, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray Larson, Mark S, ...
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information...
Thomas M, Fredric Gey, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray Larson, Mark S, ...
GeoCLEF ran as a regular track for the second time within the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2007. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information...
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...
Sun, Ling V., Jin, Ke, Liu, Yiming, Yang, Wenwei, Xie, Xing, Ye, Lin, ...
DNA transposon piggyBac (PB) is a newly established mutagen for large-scale mutagenesis in mice. We have designed and implemented an integrated database system called PBmice (PB Mutagenesis...
Jaceosidin Induces Apoptosis in Human Ovary Cancer Cells through Mitochondrial Pathway (2008)
Wen Lv, Xia Sheng, Ting Chen, Qiang Xu, Xing Xie
We examined the antiproliferation effect of Jaceosidin (4′, 5, 7-trihydroxy-3′, 6-dimethoxyflavone) isolated from the herb of Artemisia vestita Wall on several human cancer cell lines. Jaceosidin...
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...
Green tea and the prevention of breast cancer: a case-control study in Southeast China (2007)
Zhang, Min, Holman, C. D'Arcy J., Huang, Jiang-ping, Xie, Xing
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. Tea has anticarcinogenic effects against breast cancer in experimental studies. However, epidemiologic evidence that tea protects...
PBmice: an integrated database system of (2007)
Ling V. Sun, Ke Jin, Yiming Liu, Wenwei Yang, Xing Xie, Lin Ye, ...
doi:10.1093/nar/gkm790
Green tea and the prevention of breast cancer: a case-control study in southeast China (2006)
Zhang, Min, Holman, C. D'Arcy J., Huang, Jiang-ping, Xie, Xing
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. Tea has anticarcinogenic effects against breast cancer in experimental studies. However, epidemiologic evidence that tea protects...
Li, Meng-da, Feng, You-ji, Ma, Ding, Li, Zi-ting, Xie, Xing, ...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of combination regiments of taxol given weekly plus carboplatin and taxol given every three weeks plus carboplatin. To observe the toxicity of the two regiments. To...
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Microsoft Research,Asia Adapting Web Pages for Small-Screen Devices (2005)
Most of the Web pages in existence today were designed for desktop PCs,which makes viewing them on mobile Web browsers extremely difficult.The authors developed new page-adaptation technique analyzes...
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,...
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005
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...
P2P Resource Pool and Its Application to Optimize WideArea Application Level Multicasting (2004)
Zheng Zhang, Yu Chen, Shi-ding Lin, Bo-ying Lu, Shu-ming Shi, Xing Xie, ...
The concept of resource pool has a very long history. Propelled by the need to share CPU cycles of supercomputers for highthroughput computing jobs from the scientific community, the vision is most...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thesis (M.S.)--Northern Illinois University, 2000.
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...
Sun, Ling V., Jin, Ke, Liu, Yiming, Yang, Wenwei, Xie, Xing, Ye, Lin, ...
DNA transposon piggyBac (PB) is a newly established mutagen for large-scale mutagenesis in mice. We have designed and implemented an integrated database system called PBmice (PB Mutagenesis...
Jaceosidin Induces Apoptosis in Human Ovary Cancer Cells through Mitochondrial Pathway
Lv, Wen, Sheng, Xia, Chen, Ting, Xu, Qiang, Xie, Xing
We examined the antiproliferation effect of Jaceosidin (4′, 5, 7-trihydroxy-3′, 6-dimethoxyflavone) isolated from the herb of Artemisia vestita Wall on several human cancer cell lines. Jaceosidin...