Foundations, facts, photos and Facebook

Privacy Detection and Management with Facebook Photos

As more people around the world gain access to the Internet, the user base of online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, and Instagram will continue to grow. Due to the prevalence and ubiquity of social media, more personal content is being migrated online and more people are using online data as a way to assess others both personally and professionally. Therefore,...

Capturing personality from Facebook photos and photo-related activities: How much exposure do you need?

Sewing Photos: Smooth Transition between Photos

In this paper, a new smooth slideshow transition effect, Sewing Photos, is proposed while considering both of smooth content transition and smooth camera motion. Comparing to the traditional photo browsing and displaying work, which all focused on presenting splendid visual effects, Sewing Photos emphasizes on the smooth transition process between photos while taking the photo contents into acc...

Brute Facts, Social Facts, and Institutional Facts

Geographic regions (henceforth, regions for short) are spatially extended pieces of (near) earth surface that share some aspect of similarity across their extents. The most fundamental aspect of similarity shared within a region is "locational similarity"-proximity. But regions nearly always share common thematic content or activity too. That is, regions are defined not just spatially but accor...

Cheap Facts and Counter-Facts

This paper describes our experiments of using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to generate (counter-)facts from texts for certain namedentities. We give the human annotators a paragraph of text and a highlighted named-entity. They will write down several (counter-)facts about this named-entity in that context. The analysis of the results is performed by comparing the acquired data with the recognizing ...