Technical Reports (Computing Science)
Technical Reports Collection
Items in this Collection
- 14Nascimento, Mario
- 7Oliveira, Stanley
- 5Zaiane, Osmar
- 2Chitkara, Vishal
- 2Coman, Alexandru
- 2Falcao, Alexandre
- 8Database Systems
- 2Color histograms
- 2Color-based image retrieval
- 2Communication Networks
- 2Content-based image retrieval
- 2Sensor networks
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2003
Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar
Technical report TR03-12. Despite its benefit in a wide range of applications, data mining techniques also have raised a number of ethical issues. Some such issues include those of privacy, data security, intellectual property rights, and many others. In this paper, we address the privacy problem...
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Cell Histograms Versus Color Histograms for Image Representation and Retrieval
2001
Nascimento, Mario, Falcao, Alexandre, Stehling, Renato
Technical report TR01-01. Color is a commonly used feature for realizing content-based image retrieval (CBIR). In this context, this paper presents a new approach for CBIR which is based on well known and widely used color histograms. Previous approaches have used a single global color...
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2006
Nascimento, Mario, Coman, Alexandru, Sander, Joerg
Technical report TR06-24. Wireless sensor networks have received much attention recently. Given their autonomy, flexibility and large range of functionality, they can be used as an effective and discrete means for monitoring data in many domains. Typically the network autonomy implies a limited...
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Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Binary Signatures
2000
Nascimento, Mario, Chitkara, Vishal, Mastaller, Curt
Technical report TR00-18. Significant research has focused on determining efficient methodologies for retrieving images in large image databases. In this paper, we propose two variations of a new image abstraction technique based on signature bit-strings and an appropriate similarity metric. The...
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An Adaptive and Efficient Clustering-based Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval in Image Databases
An Adaptive and Efficient Clustering-based Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval in Image Databases
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Stehling, Renato, Falcao, Alexandre, Nascimento, Mario
Technical report TR01-03. In this paper, we present a new Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) approach which is based on cluster analysis. A distinguishing aspect of CBIR is that it relies on a visual content representation (metadata) of the images. In order to produce such metadata, we propose...
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2009
Malhotra, Baljeet, Nikolaidis, Ioanis, Nascimento, Mario
Technical report TR09-14. We consider the problem of aggregation convergecast scheduling in wireless sensor networks. Aggregation convergecast differs from regular convergecast in that it accommodates transmission dependencies that allow in-network aggregation to be performed. We formulate the...
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An Efficient One-Scan Sanitization For Improving The Balance Between Privacy And Knowledge Discovery
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Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar
Technical report TR03-15. In this paper, we address the problem of protecting some sensitive knowledge in transactional databases. The challenge is on protecting actionable knowledge for strategic decisions, but at the same time not losing the great benefit of association rule mining. To...
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Benchmarking Access Structures for High-Dimensional Multimedia Data
1999
Nascimento, Mario, Colossi, Nathan
Technical report TR99-05. In multimedia databases it is usual to map objects into feature vectors in high-dimensional spaces. In order to speed query processing access structures, or indices, are required. Unfortunately, in the case of similarity queries, which are in fact nearest neighbor ...
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2004
Oliveira, Stanley, Zaiane, Osmar
Technical report TR04-17. Preserving privacy of individuals when data are shared for clustering is a complex problem. The challenge is how to protect the underlying attribute values subjected to clustering without jeopardizing the similarity between data objects under analysis. To address this...
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2002
Rafiei, Davood, Oliveira, Stanley
Technical report TR02-11. Various query languages have been proposed for XML, some inspired by database query languages (e.g. SQL and OQL) and others introduced by documents community. To fulfill its role of a standardization body,W3C has identified a number of requirements for XML query...