Previous research has demonstrated that hormones, relationship goals, and social context influence interest in the opposite sex. It has not been previously reported, however, whether having a current sexual partner also influences interest in members of the opposite sex. To test this, we obtained explicit and implicit measures of interest by measuring men's and women's subjective ratings and re...

Given a large photo collection without domain knowledge (e.g., tourism photos, conference photos, event photos, images wrapped from webpages), it is not easy for human beings to organize or only view them within a reasonable time. In this paper, we propose to automatically extract meaningful semantics from a photo collection named “dimensions” to help people view, search and organize photos con...

Using photos of captive Andean bears of known age and pedigree, and photos of wild Andean bear cubs < 6 months old, we evaluated the degree to which visual information may be used to estimate bears’ ages and assess their kinship. We demonstrate that the ages of Andean bear cubs ≤ 6 months old may be estimated from their size relative to their mothers with an average error of < 0.01 ± 13.2 days ...

This paper focuses on User-Generated (UG) photos in the understudied Arab Muslim World. Over four million public photos on Flickr.com represent Arab countries‟ UG presence, with Egypt and Palestine the top countries for the respective keywords of travel and Muslim. The findings also reveal varied United Arab Emirates‟ presence, with ten times more Dubai photos than the next highest emirate Abu ...

With the explosion in the number of images and videos on the Internet and ongoing amassing of huge volumes of visual data from digital cameras and mobile devices, we are unknowingly logging our own history. Consider that the number of digital cameras and camera phones in the world has surpassed one billion and that 500 billion consumer photos are taken each year. Given the world’s population of...

In recent years, due to the wide spread of photo sharing Web sites such as Flickr and Picasa, we can put our own photos on the Web and show them to the public easily. To make the photos searched for easily, it is common to add several keywords which are called as “tags” when we upload photos. However, most of the tags are added one by one independently without much consideration of association ...

Unstructured Image Mosaics Rahul Garg Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Steven M. Seitz Computer Science & Engineering Image mosaics stitch photos into a single composite with a wide field of view. They are easy to create and can be panned by dragging the mouse, thus enabling simple and effective photorealistic visualizations. However, they are restricted to structured input where t...