soil erosion is a main hazard in most area of the country specially in arid and semi-arid regions and itis very important because of sedimentation, pollution, increased flooding and its negative effects onsoil productivity. one of the features of arid and semi-arid areas is the presence of low cover ofvascular plants. these empty spaces are usually good niches for biological soil crusts or cryp...

Given elevation, hydrologic, soil, and sunlight data can we predict what type of tree would be in a small patch of forest? Our project attempts to predict the predominant type of tree in sections of wooded area. Understanding forest composition is a valuable aspect of managing the health and vitality of our wilderness areas. Classifying cover type can help further research regarding forest fire...

We present an approach for cover version identification which is based on combining different discretized features derived from the chromagram vectors extracted from the audio data. For measuring similarity between features, we use a parameter-free quasi-universal similarity metric which utilizes data compression. Evaluation proves that combined feature distances increase the accuracy in cover ...

In this paper, we evaluate a set of methods for combining features for cover song identification. We first create multiple classifiers based on global tempo, duration, loudness, beats and chroma average features, training a random forest for each feature. Subsequently, we evaluate standard combination rules for merging these single classifiers into a composite classifier based on global feature...

This paper presents a framework for soccer event detection through collaborative analysis of the textual, visual and aural modalities. The basic notion is to decompose a match video into smaller segments until ultimately the desired eventful segment is identified. Simple features are considered namely the minute-by-minute reports from sports websites (i.e., text), the semantic shot classes of f...

Land cover is critical information to various land management and scientific applications, including biogeochemical and climate modeling. In addition, fire is an essential factor in shaping of vegetation structures, as well as for the functioning of savanna ecosystems. Remote sensing has long been an important and effective means of mapping and monitoring land cover and burned area over large a...