Improving image tags by exploiting web search results

Automatic image tagging automatically assigns image with semantic keywords called tags, which significantly facilitates image search and organization. Most of present image tagging approaches are constrained by the training model learned from the training dataset, and moreover they have no exploitation on other type of web resource (e.g., web text documents). In this paper, we proposed a search based image tagging algorithm (CTSTag), in which the result tags are derived from web search result. Specifically, it assigns the query image with a more comprehensive tag set derived from both web images and web text documents. First, a content-based image search technology is used to retrieve a set of visually similar images which are ranked by the semantic consistency values. Then, a set of relevant tags are derived from these top ranked images as the initial tag set. Second, a text-based search is used to retrieve other relevant web resources by using the initial tag set as the query. After the denoising process, the initial tag set is expanded with other tags mined from the text-based search result. Then, an probability flow measure method is proposed to estimate the probabilities of the expanded tags. Finally, all the tags are refined using the Random Walk with Restart (RWR) method and the top ones are assigned to the query images. Experiments on NUS-WIDE dataset show not only the performance of the proposed algorithm but also the advantage of image retrieval and organization based on the result tags.     

Enhancing social media competitiveness of small businesses: insights from small pizzerias

Social media provide an online platform for enterprises to engage existing customers and attract new customers. Although social media can be easily set up at no cost, however, due to limited human and financial resources, many small businesses find it challenging to compete against large enterprises in social media use. While more and more small businesses have jumped on the bandwagon of social media in recent years, few studies investigated the social media strategies that can help small businesses to survive and even thrive against large competitors in the social media arena. Therefore, we studied 32 small pizzerias in a mid-size U.S. city in terms of their social media use for business. Our study found that small pizzerias emphasizing social media use on community relations and social responsibility tend to be more successful in attracting and engaging local customers. This study also sheds light on both effective strategies and successful practices of social media use by small pizzerias. The insights and recommendations identified from this study can help small businesses to enhance their social media competitiveness against large enterprises.     

基于改进型MF-DFA的月径流序列多重分形分析

应用改进的多重分形消除趋势波动分析法对长江流域某水文站多年月径流资料进行分析计算,结果显示,月径流序列具有长程相关性和多重分形特征,并采用二项倍增串级模型,对其多重分形谱拟合,表明月径流序列具有较强的多重分形性。通过对其初始序列、重排序列和替代序列进行对比分析,揭示出月径流序列多重分形特征是序列本身的长程相关性和胖尾概率分布共同作用的结果,且胖尾概率分布起主要作用。     

饮用水深度处理工艺活性炭运行生命周期探讨

通过试验和对生产性活性炭池运行情况的调查分析,对臭氧-活性炭饮用水深度处理工艺中活性炭去除有机物的规律、活性炭使用寿命(生命周期)的影响因素及评判指标进行了探讨,并对机理进行了分析.活性炭吸附期和使用寿命与进水水质、臭氧投加量、炭池滤速及出水要求等因素有关,臭氧氧化主要是通过提高进水可降解有机碳与总有机碳的比值,起到延长生物活性炭运行寿命的作用,活性炭的吸附参数不能作为活性炭生命周期的唯一判定指标,出水水质限值是控制活性炭生命周期时间点的最重要参数.     

环境温度对聚乙烯给水管道应用的影响分析与建议

通过一个案例,实测埋地聚乙烯管段的纵向伸缩量的变化与管道附近的温度变化。根据试验的年周期数据,对各测点的相关关系以及变化规律进行分析,研究环境温度的主要影响因素以及纵向回缩的位移量。由此建议埋地聚乙烯管道工程技术中应采取释放管道纵向回缩量的方法或者采用约束管道纵向回缩应力的方式来避免聚乙烯管道因纵向回缩引发的接口脱落事故,进一步完善和优化聚乙烯给水管道的设计、施工方案。     

A new image fusion performance metric based on visual information fidelity

Because subjective evaluation is not adequate for assessing work in an automatic system, using an objective image fusion performance metric is a common approach to evaluate the quality of different fusion schemes. In this paper, a multi-resolution image fusion metric using visual information fidelity (VIF) is presented to assess fusion performance objectively. This method has four stages: (1) Source and fused images are filtered and divided into blocks. (2) Visual information is evaluated with and without distortion information in each block. (3) The visual information fidelity for fusion (VIFF) of each sub-band is calculated. (4) The overall quality measure is determined by weighting the VIFF of each sub-band. In our experiment, the proposed fusion assessment method is compared with several existing fusion metrics using the subjective test dataset provided by Petrovic. We found that VIFF performs better in terms of both human perception matching and computational complexity.     

砾石土心墙堆石坝防渗料掺和工艺研究

采用"平铺立采"与"搅拌机掺和"两种掺和工艺,对粘土料和掺入料进行掺和,就其掺和成果进行系统分析,研究对比哪种掺和工艺更适合双江口水电站建设.试验表明:"平铺立采"的掺和工艺是可行的,建议将"平铺立采"作为施工期的主要掺和方式以供选择;"搅拌机掺和"制备防渗掺和基本可行,与"平铺立采"比较,采用"搅拌机掺和"离散性要大...     

《飞行工程力学》多媒体教学与实践

<飞行工程力学>课程要在突出专业特色方面有所突破和创新,教学内容要与部队、航理、装备密切结合.为此,在教学中利用课件将隐蔽、复杂的航空飞机结构材料转变成为直观、生动、形象的音、视频多媒体材料.     

基于能量特征的脑电信号特征提取与分类

为了快速、有效地提取脑电特征,提高分类正确率,采用带通滤波和小波包分析的方法提取Mu、Beta节律对应的脑电信号,在时域范围内,将信号幅度的平方作为能量特征值;在频域范围内,采用AR模型功率谱估计法所得的功率谱密度作为能量特征值.根据运动想象脑电信号特点,构造左右通道信号能量差值的符号特性作为分类判别依据,进行分类测试,方法简单.初步实验结果表明,所利用的两种方法的分类正确率达87.857%.     

校园信息门户的建设

随着高等院校信息化建设的不断深入发展,校园的信息门户系统应运而生.它将校园的各种数字化应用系统统一集成起来,为访问者提供了单点登录和集中访问各种应用的便利.更重要的是,校园信息化的普及推动了人们对于访问门户的个性化需求,这就能够极大的促进高等院校信息门户的发展.