Digital photographs and visual data have become increasingly available, especially on the
Web considered as the largest image database to date. However, the value of multimedia …

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fourth Edition introduces concepts, principles, and
methods for mining patterns, knowledge, and models from various kinds of data for diverse …

An essential operation in web corpus construction consists in retaining the desired content
while discarding the rest. Another challenge finding one's way through websites. This article …

The automatic extraction of information from unstructured sources has opened up new
avenues for querying, organizing, and analyzing data by drawing upon the clean semantics …

We consider the problem of clustering Web image search results. Generally, the image
search results returned by an image search engine contain multiple topics. Organizing the …

Previous work shows that a web page can be partitioned into multiple segments or blocks,
and often the importance of those blocks in a page is not equivalent. Also, it has been …

The Web provides a corpus of design examples unparalleled in human history. However,
leveraging existing designs to produce new pages is often difficult. This paper introduces the …

Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potential
impact on both image understanding and web image search. In this paper, we propose a …

Cross-browser (and cross-platform) issues are prevalent in modern web based applications
and range from minor cosmetic bugs to critical functional failures. In spite of the relevance of …

Visual esthetics is recognized as an essential factor of perceived usability, credibility, and
overall quality of software systems user interfaces. Thus, it is crucial to assess this factor as …