The topic of multi-modal biometrics has attracted great interest in recent years. This talk will categorize different approaches to multi-modal biometrics based on the biometric sources, the type(s) of sensing used, and the depth of collaborative interaction in the processing. By “biometric source” we mean the property of the person that is used for identification, such as fingerprint, voice, f...

In this paper, we present a novel Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis-based (PLSA-based) aspect model and turn cross-media retrieval into two parts of multi-modal integration and correlation propagation. We first use multivariate Gaussian distributions to model continuous quantity in PLSA, avoiding information loss between feature-instance versus real-world matching. Multi-modal correlations...

Internet users are more and more playing multiple roles when connected on the Web, such as “posting”, “commenting”, “tagging” and “sharing” different kinds of information on various social media. Despite the research interest in the field of social networks, few has been done up to now w.r.t. information access in multi-relational social networks where queries can be multifaceted queries (e.g. ...

The article studies multi-modal (in particular temporal, tense, logics) possessing universal formulas. We prove (Theorems 11 and 12) that the admissibility problem for inference rules (inference rules with parameters) is decidable for all decidable multi-modal (in particular, temporal) logics possessing an universal formula and decidable w.r.t. unification (unification with parameters). These t...