Visual attributes are great means of describing images or scenes, in a way both humans and computers understand. In order to establish a correspondence between images and to be able to compare the strength of each property between images, relative attributes were introduced. However, since their introduction, hand-crafted and engineered features were used to learn increasingly complex models fo...

In this paper, we study the feasibility of scene attributes as the intermediate scene representation for automatic image captioning, tag predicting and semantic image search. we show that when used as features for these tasks, low dimensional scene attributes can compete with or improve on the state of art performance. In particular, we propose a new method of content-based image retrieval, whi...

This paper investigates the concept of information. It follows different approaches for defining information before discussing a knowledge-in-action view on information as part of sociomaterial practices. Drawing from Stamper’s (1991) extended semiological framework the paper proposes its reinterpretation to study information as a sociomaterial phenomenon. The paper further argues that rather t...

The development of the idea of coordination languages, as deened by Carriero and Gelernter 8], has enabled work in concurrency to abstract away from the internals of processes or agents and hence to focus on their external interactions. A variety of practical parallel and/or distributed systems have resulted from the application of the coordination language concept | the most widely-known of th...

The article presents the marginal willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for various qualitative and quantitative attributes of travel with reference to the bus transportation system in Kolkata City, India. A stated choice experiment is designed to capture the responses for estimating marginal WTP values for various attributes. WTP values are estimated separately for commuting and noncommuting trip...

Take a look around you. How would you describe your surroundings to best give an idea of what everything looks like to someone not there? Maybe you will give a category to the scene, say, ‘bedroom’. You might try to list some of the objects around you, like ‘bed’, ‘lamp’, and ‘desk’. Or perhaps you’ll describe it with adjectives like ‘indoors’, ‘cozy’, and ‘cluttered’. In computer vision, (or m...

Existing research on categories has only examined indirectly the value associated with being a member of a category relative to the value of the set of attributes that determine membership in that category. This study uses survey data to analyze consumers' preferences for the "organic" label versus for the attributes underlying that label. We found that consumers generally preferred products wi...

Attribute based group signature (ABGS) is a a new generation of group signature schemes. In such a scheme the verifier could define the role of a signer within the group. He determines the attributes possessed by the member signing the document. In this paper we propose the first ABGS scheme with multi-authorities and define its security notions. We construct an ABGS that is proved to be fully ...

spinoza thinks that god is the only existent substance and all things are manifestations of it. in his view the manifestations of god in all infinite worlds is by his attributes which are infinite numerally and by their natures and they are united with his nature. in this world his nature has manifested by two attributes: thought and extension. spinoza’s conception of god is so ambiguous that a...