In this work we explore the potential role of music album cover arts for the task of predicting the overall rating of music albums and we investigate if one can judge a music album by its cover alone. We present the results of our participation to the Linked Data Mining Challenge at the Know@LOD 2016 Workshop, which suggest that the the cover album alone might not be sufficient for the rating p...

Digitizing cultural information is a complex endeavor. Not only do users expect to have access to primary information like digital music files; it is also becoming more important for digital systems to provide contextual information for the primary artifacts contained within. The Liner Notes Markup Language (LNML) was developed to provide an XML vocabulary for encoding complex contextual docume...

صخلملا Seasonal variation of zooplankton biomass has been carried out at two selected sites on Greater Zab River. Monthly samples of water were collected during period from January to December 2008. Some physico-chemical properties of water were studied including water temperature (from 8 to 30.5 C), hydrogen ion concentration (from 6.3 to 8), EC (from 255 to 821 μs.cm), turbidity (1085 NTU), d...

In this paper, an MPEG-7 based album system for managing consumer-generated photographs is introduced. Face detection and recognition technologies are adopted to implement the query-by-face functionality of the content-aware album. A convenient face database construction and training mechanism is also provided. By utilizing both user attention model for visual objects and face information, the ...

BACKGROUND Arsenic in groundwater and its accumulation in plants and animals have assumed a menacing proportion in a large part of West Bengal, India and adjoining areas of Bangladesh. Because of the tremendous magnitude of the problem, there seems to be no way to tackle the problem overnight. Efforts to provide arsenic free water to the millions of people living in these dreaded zones are bein...