Despite the rapid progress of the techniques for image classification, video annotation has remained a challenging task. Automated video annotation would be a breakthrough technology, enabling users to search within the videos. Recently, Google introduced the Cloud Video Intelligence API for video analysis. As per the website, the system can be used to “separate signal from noise, by retrieving...

Many obsolete coordinate systems used in the past have fallen into disuse. However, the contents of historical documents still refer to these obsolete coordinates and thus translation systems are important in locating historical events. We present a specialized Linked Open Data API constructed to translate obsolete British Trench Map coordinates from the Great War into modern WGS84 coordinates....

Main Memory Map Reduce (M3R) is a new implementation of the Hadoop Map Reduce (HMR) API targeted at online analytics on high mean-time-to-failure clusters. It does not support resilience, and supports only those workloads which can fit into cluster memory. In return, it can run HMR jobs unchanged – including jobs produced by compilers for higher-level languages such as Pig, Jaql, and SystemML a...

Recently, the global mobile device market is growing up and the functionalities of the mobile devices expand continually. As the expansion of mobile device usage and functionality, it is possible to collect various kinds of personal information such as photographs, GPS coordinates, and multimedia contents. Some researchers have studied data management and transfer of personal information collec...

The interaction between humans and computers has traditionally been through the medium of desktop computing. However, in recent years, an alternative computing concept known as ubiquitous computing is ushering in various wearable computing technologies, such as Google Glass. These technologies enable even more immediate ways to share and access information. Our research seeks to explore novel m...

With the increasing amount of biomedical literature, there is a need for automatic extraction of information to support biomedical researchers. GeneTUC has been developed to be able to read biological texts and answer questions about them afterwards. The knowledge base of the system is constructed by parsing MEDLINE abstracts or other online text strings retrieved by the Google API. When the sy...

Interoperability is a feature required by the Semantic Web. It is provided by the ontology matching methods and algorithms. But now ontologies are presented not only in English, but in other languages as well. It is important to use an automatic translation for obtaining correct matching pairs in multilingual ontology matching. The translation into many languages could be based on the Google Tr...