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Comparative Study of Trust Modeling For Automatic Landmark Tagging

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda

Many images uploaded to social networks are related to travel, since people consider traveling to be an important event in their life. However, a signiﬁcant amount of travel images on the Internet lack proper geographical annotations or tags. In many cases ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Advanced Social Media Analysis

Ivan Ivanov

EPFL2013

In Tags We Trust: Trust modeling in social tagging of multimedia content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and retrieval of multimedia content. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult to perform an efficient search. Users may make mistakes in tagging and i ...

2012

Geotag Propagation in Social Networks Based on User Trust Model

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

In the past few years sharing photos within social networks has become very popular. In order to make these huge collections easier to explore, images are usually tagged with representative keywords such as persons, events, objects, and locations. In order ...

Springer2012

Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Sasan Yazdani

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and retrieval of diverse resources available online. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult to perform an efficient search. Users may make mistakes ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Robust Duplicate Detection of 2D and 3D Objects

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

In this paper, the authors analyze their graph-based approach for 2D and 3D object duplicate detection in still images. A graph model is used to represent the 3D spatial information of the object based on the features extracted from training images to avoi ...

IGI Global2012

Omnidirectional object duplicate detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Lutz Goldmann

With the technological evolution of digital acquisition and content analysis, millions of images and video sequences are captured every day and used in a large variety of applications. As keyword-based indexing is very time consuming and inefficient due to ...

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Epitomize Your Photos

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee

With the rapid growth of digital photography, sharing of photos with friends and family has become very popular. When people share their photos, they usually organize them in albums according to events or places. To tell the story of some important events ...

2011

Let Epitome summarize your photo collection!

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Lutz Goldmann

2011

Object-based Tag Propagation for Semi-automatic Annotation of Images

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

Over the last few years, social network systems have greatly increased users’ involvement in online content creation and annotation. Since such systems usually need to deal with a large amount of multimedia data, it becomes desirable to realize an interact ...

2010

3D Object Duplicate Detection for Video Retrieval

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

Content-based video retrieval has become a very active research area in the last decade due to the increasing number of video shared on social networks such as YouTube and Daily-Motion. While most of the content-based video retrieval approaches employ visu ...

2010

Social Game Epitome versus Automatic Visual Analysis

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Lutz Goldmann

With the rapid growth of digital photography, sharing of photos with friends and family has become very popular. When people share their photos, they usually organize them in albums according to events or places. To tell the story of some important events ...

2010

Propagation of geotags based on object duplicate detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

In this paper, we consider the use of object duplicate detection for the propagation of geotags from a small set of images with location names (IPTC) to a large set of non-tagged images. The motivation behind this idea is that images of individual location ...

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Robust Duplicate Detection of 2D and 3D Objects

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee, Lutz Goldmann

In this paper, we analyze our graph-based approach for 2D and 3D object duplicate detection in still images. A graph model is used to represent the 3D spatial information of the object based on the features extracted from training images so that an explici ...

2010

Epitome - A Social Game for Photo Album Summarization

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Jong Seok Lee

In this paper, we propose an approach for photo album summarization through a novel social game "Epitome" for mobile phones. Our approach to album summarization consists of two games: "Select the Best!" and "Split it!". The goal of the first game is to all ...

2010

Towards Generic Detection of Unusual Events in Video Surveillance

Touradj Ebrahimi, Frédéric Dufaux, Ivan Ivanov

In this paper, we consider the challenging problem of unusual event detection in video surveillance systems. The proposed approach makes a step toward generic and automatic detection of unusual events in terms of velocity and acceleration. At first, the mo ...

2009