Multimodal news story clustering with pairwise visual near-duplicate constraint

• Main Authors: WU, Xiao, NGO, Chong-wah, HAUPTMANN, Alexander G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: multimedia topic detection and tracking; near-duplicate visual constraint; news story clustering; video data mining; Data Storage Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6333; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7336/viewcontent/10.1.1.323.9737.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Story clustering is a critical step for news retrieval, topic mining, and summarization. Nonetheless, the task remains highly challenging owing to the fact that news topics exhibit clusters of varying densities, shapes, and sizes. Traditional algorithms are found to be ineffective in mining these ty...