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2022-12-12: Disinformation Spread on Social Media through Screenshot Sharing:...
It wasn’t so long ago when Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, offered to buy Twitter by posting a tweet (Fig. 1). Eventually, a number of fake tweets relevant to this issue went viral on social...
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2022-12-12: Twitter DM Videos Are Accessible to Unauthenticated Users
@Whitekitty2012 DMing @BKitty2020 an image -- Twitter works very hard to protect this image from access by third parties. @Whitekitty2012 DMing @BKitty2020 a video -- unlike the image above, this...
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2022-12-21: PDFServer - Our Summer Internship at LANL
This summer (summer of 2022), we (Himarsha Jayanetti, Gavindya Jayawardena, and Yasith Jayawardana) got the opportunity to intern at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under the Graduate...
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2022-12-23: ECCV 2022 and DIRA 2022 Trip Report
I had a paper accepted to the Drawings and abstract Imagery: Representation and Analysis (DIRA) workshop, allowing me to attend the 17 th European Conference on Computer Vision 2022 (ECCV 2022) in Tel...
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2022-12-26: Getting started with Mixed Reality experience
Figure 1: HoloLens 2 headset device.One of the most popular technological trends today is Mixed Reality (MR). You can use advanced sensing and imaging technology to interact with and manipulate...
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2022-12-29: A Summary of "CascadeTabNet: An approach for end to end table...
Figure 1: Traditional and Deep Learning Approaches to Table Recognition (Hashmi et al.)Table recognition refers to the process of using...
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2022-12-31: Paper Summary: "Beyond Classifiers: Remote Sensing Change...
Semantic mapping of changes between images using Triplet Loss Metric Learning, Fig 8. from Zhang et al.I talked about two kinds of trust in my previous two posts, Evaluating Trust in User-Data...
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2023-01-02: Survey of Data Interfaces and Archived Data
Data, Data Everywhere Data is all around us and comes in many forms. Statistical, descriptive, discrete, encoded, decoded, geocoded, qualitative, quantitative, quantum 🤯! Wow, there's a lot! Data,...
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2023-01-05: Using Social Media to Identifying Deceptive Advertisements to...
We are delighted to receive funding to work on a research project to develop new ways to counter human smuggling by identifying deceptive posts on social media sites. This is a joint work collaboration...
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2023-01-05: Eight WS-DL Classes Offered for Spring 2023
https://xkcd.com/1897/Seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Spring 2023. The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. CS 432/532 Web...
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2023-01-08: A Summary of "DocFormer: End to End Transformer for Document...
Our previous blog described the importance of document understanding for layout analysis. While layout analysis is important, many downstream tasks, including document classification, entity...
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2023-01-10: A Summary of "Multi-Type-TD-TSR -- Extracting Tables from...
Figure 1: Detecting tables and extracting table cell structures in document image (Fig 2 in Fischer et al.)In the past decades, several works have been...
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2023-01-10: I Am Number 10
On December 17, 2022, I walked in ODU's commencement ceremony as Dr. Michele Weigle's 10th Ph.D. graduate. The number 10 is some what fitting as 10 years have passed since I started taking doctoral...
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2023-01-15: A Summary of "Methodology for heuristic evaluation of the...
The research work addressed in the paper"Methodology for heuristic evaluation of the accessibility of statistical charts for people with low vision and color vision deficiency," published by Rubén...
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2023-01-18: Satwik Ram - Ph.D. Student
Hello folks! This is Satwik Ram, international Ph.D. student from Bengaluru, India. Before beginning my doctoral studies, I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya...
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2023-01-18: In A Terminal Far, Far Away...
HTTP and HTML are the reigning champs in terms of delivering content from the Web to your computer, typically though a Web browser. Content and data available over HTTP could generally be categorized...
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2023-01-18: Paper Summary: "On Twitter Purge: A Retrospective Analysis of...
Suspension of user accounts on social media has become a common phenomenon these days. Accounts are usually suspended when the posts do not comply with social media rules and community guidelines. Such...
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2023-01-25: International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries...
The International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), like JCDL (JCDL 2022 Trip Report) and TPDL (TPDL 2022 Trip Report), connects digital libraries, computer science, and library and...
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2023-01-26: Review of WS-DL's 2022
Covid isn't over, but in 2022 things with the Web Science and Digital Libraries Group (WS-DL) have been slowly returning to normal. We graduated one PhD student, one MS student, and added five...
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2023-02-06: New Kid in Town: ChatGPT
Recently, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, an extremely powerful language model chatbot that can answer complex questions in a conversational manner. It has become the talk of the town since its release....
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