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The content based image retrieval aims to find the similar images from a large scale dataset against a query image. Generally, the similarity between the representative features of the query image and dataset images is used to rank the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Shiv Ram Dubey

Stack Overflow has accumulated millions of answers. Informative comments can strengthen their associated answers (e.g., providing additional information). Currently, Stack Overflow hides comments that are ranked beyond the top 5. Stack…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Haoxiang Zhang , Shaowei Wang , Tse-Hsun Peter Chen , Ahmed E. Hassan

User-generated content plays a key role in social networking, allowing a more active participation, socialisation, and collaboration among users. In particular, media content has been gaining a lot of ground, allowing users to express…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Letícia Seixas Pereira , José Coelho , André Rodrigues , João Guerreiro , Tiago Guerreiro , Carlos Duarte

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 2020, it had been tested on selected open source software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Hideaki Hata , Nicole Novielli , Sebastian Baltes , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Christoph Treude

Millions of users visit Stack Overflow regularly to ask community for answers to their programming questions. However, like many other platforms, Stack Overflow consistently struggles with low user retention and declining levels of user…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Denis Helic , Tiago Santos

Through social network sites (SNS) are between the most popular sites in the Web, there is not a formal study on their functional features. This paper introduces a comprehensive list of them. Then, it shows how these features are supported…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Antonio Tapiador , Diego Carrera

Stack Overflow is widely recognized by software practitioners as the go-to resource for addressing technical issues and sharing practical solutions. While not typically seen as a scholarly forum, users on Stack Overflow commonly refer to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Run Huang , Souti Chattopadhyay

Multi-modal visual understanding of images with prompts involves using various visual and textual cues to enhance the semantic understanding of images. This approach combines both vision and language processing to generate more accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuzhou Peng

Virality of online content on social networking websites is an important but esoteric phenomenon often studied in fields like marketing, psychology and data mining. In this paper we study viral images from a computer vision perspective. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arturo Deza , Devi Parikh

Code maintenance data sets typically consist of a before and after version of the code that contains the improvement or fix. Such data sets are important for software engineering support tools related to code maintenance, such as program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Henry Tang , Sarah Nadi

Increasingly, software developers are using a wide array of social collaborative platforms for software development and learning. In this work, we examined the similarities in developer's interests within and across GitHub and Stack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Roy Ka-Wei Lee , David Lo

Text-guided image retrieval is to incorporate conditional text to better capture users' intent. Traditionally, the existing methods focus on minimizing the embedding distances between the source inputs and the targeted image, using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Junyang Chen , Hanjiang Lai

We study how social image concerns shape information sharing among peers. Individuals receive a signal about a binary state of the world characterized by both a direction and a veracity status. While the direction is freely observable,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-11 Dana Sisak , Philipp Denter

Multi-image alignment, bringing a group of images into common register, is an ubiquitous problem and the first step of many applications in a wide variety of domains. As a result, a great amount of effort is being invested in developing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-12 Cecilia Aguerrebere , Mauricio Delbracio , Alberto Bartesaghi , Guillermo Sapiro

This paper begins with a description of methods for estimating image probability density functions that reflects the observation that such data is usually constrained to lie in restricted regions of the high-dimensional image space-not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Peter Tu , Zhaoyuan Yang , Richard Hartley , Zhiwei Xu , Jing Zhang , Yiwei Fu , Dylan Campbell , Jaskirat Singh , Tianyu Wang

Recognizing spatial relations and reasoning about them is essential in multiple applications including navigation, direction giving and human-computer interaction in general. Spatial relations between objects can either be explicit --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Soham Dan , Hangfeng He , Dan Roth

Image captions serve as efficient surrogates for visual content in multimodal systems such as retrieval, recommendation, and multi-step agentic inference pipelines. Yet current evaluation practices miss a fundamental question: Can captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Shijia Yang , Yunong Liu , Bohan Zhai , Ximeng Sun , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum , Manling Li , Chenfeng Xu

The rapid proliferation of visual content raises fundamental questions about how different visual formats and features shape perceived credibility. Drawing on processing fluency theory, this research examines how visuals shape credibility…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Salman Khawar , Yingdan Lu , Yilang Peng , Jiyoung Yeon , Cuihua Shen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of taking as input an image and a free-form natural language question about the image, and producing an accurate answer. In this work we view VQA as a "feature extraction" module to extract image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Xiao Lin , Devi Parikh

The need to protect sensitive information privacy duringinformation exchange over the internet/intranet has led towider adoption of cryptography and steganography. The cryptography approaches convert the information into an unreadable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Idakwo M. A. , Muazu M. B. , Adedokun A. E. , Sadiq B. O