We propose to combine short-term block-based fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) learning and long-term dynamic semantic clustering (DSC) learning to bridge the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval. The short-term learning addresses the small sample problem by incorporating additional image blocks to enlarge the training set. Specifically, it applies the nearest neighbor mechanism to c...

The retrieval abilities of spatially uniform attractor networks can be measured by the global overlap between patterns and neural states. However, we found that nonuniform networks, for instance, small-world networks, can retrieve fragments of patterns (blocks) without performing global retrieval. We propose a way to measure the local retrieval using a parameter that is related to the fluctuati...

Future advances in networking coupled with rapid advances in storage technologies will make it feasible to build a multimedia on-demand server capable of providing services similar to those of a neighborhood videotape rental store on a metropolitan-area network. In this paper, we study various admission control policies that permit such a multimedia server to satisfy multiple subscribers simult...

Most Twitter search systems generally treat a tweet as a plain text when modeling relevance. However, a series of conventions allows users to tweet in structural ways using combination of different blocks of texts. These blocks include plain texts, hashtags, links, mentions, etc. Each block encodes a variety of communicative intent and sequence of these blocks captures changing discourse. Previ...