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Editorial: Security, Search and Rescue Robotics

This special issue collects some of the best papers from the 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics held at the University of Denver in late 2009. This single-track workshop, in its seventh year, has become the premier venue for search and rescue robotics research and related technologies the world over. Hopping from continent to continent each year, this stop ...

In Search of Data: An Editorial

W e argue that: (1) whether articles contain numeric data should be irrelevant to the evaluation process; (2) the desirability of numeric real, numeric synthetic, or nonnumeric data depends on the research objective; (3) assumptions can and should sometimes substitute for additional data; and (4) equal scrutiny should be given to data collection procedures, regardless of whether the researcher ...

Editorial: In Search of In vivo MSC

Editorial: Visual Search and Selective Attention

Visual search is one of the most successful paradigms employed in research on selective attention. In the prototypical search task, observers are presented with displays containing variable numbers of items one of which, the target, may differ from the other items, the distractors. Observers indicate, as rapidly and as accurately as possible, whether or not a target objects is present in the di...

Guest Editorial: Big Media Data: Understanding, Search, and Mining

BIG media data is a new research area, and has been attracting a lot of research interests in both industry and academia. This editorial, as the third part of this special issue, introduces two papers on video copy detection data and personalized travel sequence recommendation from social media. The first paper is “Partial Copy Detection in Videos: A Benchmark and An Evaluation of Popular Metho...