As cities continue to burgeon, Urban Computing emerges as a pivotal discipline for
sustainable development by harnessing the power of cross-domain data fusion from diverse …

The amount of user-generated multimedia content (UGC) has increased rapidly in recent
years due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones, digital cameras, and affordable …

Cloud and fog computing are two emerging Internet-based collaborative technologies for big
data analytics. An interesting question arising is whether the two technologies can resonate …

It is important to minimize the energy consumption of large-scale, geographically distributed
edge data centers (EDCs). While modern processing units (PUs) have energy-saving …

In this paper, we propose Urban Object Detection Kit, a system for the real-time collection
and analysis of street-level imagery. The system is affordable and portable and allows local …

Due to the growth of geo-tagged images, recent web and mobile applications provide
search capabilities for images that are similar to a given query image and simultaneously …

Due to the prevalence of GPS-equipped cameras (eg, smartphones and surveillance
cameras), massive amounts of geo-tagged images capturing urban streets are increasingly …

Great efforts have been paid to develop Content Based Video Retrieval (CBVR) due to the
exponential growth of video datasets with several types of data such as visual, audio and …

Due to the popularity of GPS-equipped cameras such as smartphones, geo-tagged image
datasets are widely available and they became a good source to record every corner of …

This paper proposes a platform, dubbed" Translational Visual Data Platform (TVDP)", to
collect, manage, analyze urban visual data which enables participating community members …