A distributed computing environment data store management system includes a computer-based system for identifying a subset of element records in a data store associated with the elements of a distributed computing environment, receiving at least one user-defined data element from a user interface. Using the user-defined data element, the system adds the user-defined data element to each of the subset of element records, and stores each of the subset of element records and their associated user-defined data in the database.

A matching system and related methods for matching an input item or input item set with stored items and/or stored item sets, and methods for manufacturing and using same.

A system and method for generating personalized multimedia content element clusters. The method includes determining, based on at least one interest, at least one personalized concept, wherein each personalized concept represents one of the at least one user interest; obtaining at least one multimedia content element related to a user; generating at least one signature for the at least one multimedia content element, each generated signature representing at least a portion of the at least one multimedia content element; determining, based on the generated at least one signature, at least one multimedia content element cluster, wherein each cluster includes a plurality of multimedia content elements sharing a common concept of the at least one personalized concept; and creating at least one personalized multimedia content element cluster by adding, to each determined cluster, at least one of the at least one multimedia content element sharing the common concept of the cluster.

A server system obtains a collection of images, each image in the collection of images being associated with a first set of text descriptors. The server system obtains a media item being associated with a second set of text descriptors. The server system selects a subset of the collection of images, including: selecting an initial subset of the collection of images, wherein the initial subset of the collection of images consists of images that share a text descriptor with the media item; obtaining a set of preferences for a user of the media-providing service; and selecting the subset of the collection of images from the initial subset of the collection of images based on the set of preferences for the user of the media-providing service. The server system concurrently presents: a respective image of the subset of the collection of images; and the media item.

An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a data receiver, an image specifier, a replacement specifier, and a data generator. The data receiver receives data. The image specifier specifies a first image contained in the data. The replacement specifier specifies replacement data for the first image on the basis of a characteristic of the data. The data generator generates data in which the first image has been replaced with an image represented by the replacement data.

A code-based information system for at least one mobile communication unit, wherein individual data are to be associated with a code by means of a specific application to be implemented on the at least one mobile communication unit, the association of the code with the individual data is to be transmitted to a database serving as a central server and is to be deposed there, and the code is to be recognized via said at least one mobile communication unit by means of the application implemented on the at least one mobile communication unit, whereby the association of the code with the individual data is called up from said database and the data are displayed on the mobile communications unit.

A system and methods of digital image capture, video surveillance and, in particular, to a method for verification of integrity and validity of live or recorded images, video(s) and surveillance images and video(s), both real-time and delayed. The method, in accordance with a principle embodiment, employs the use of additional light (photonic water marks) added to images of objects and scenes The photonic water marks reflect or refract, scatter or entangle with the real objects and scenes to then be digitized with the object or scene image.

Embodiments provide a method for recognizing a traffic sign from an input image. The method may include extracting image features from the input image; modifying the image features based on a predetermined image saliency map to determine modified image features; determining a plurality of traffic sign candidates by applying an adaptive boosting algorithm on the modified image features; determining a confidence score for each traffic sign candidate by applying a support vector regression algorithm; and recognizing a traffic sign based on the confidence score for each traffic sign candidate.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data visualization method and apparatus, and a database server. The method includes receiving, by a database server, a data query request sent by a request side, where the data query request includes a query condition and a data graph type, acquiring data according to the query condition, where the data graph type is used for presentation of the data, and generating a data graph according to the data and the data graph type. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a query condition and a data graph type are carried in a data query request, and a data graph is generated inside a database server. Therefore, it is unnecessary to develop software multiple times in different architectures to generate a data graph, which improves resource utilization, and has a relatively low skill requirement for an operator.

Systems and methods are provided for displaying supplemental content for print media using augmented reality. A user profile for a user of an augmented reality device is determined. Content of the print media is searched to identify a first portion of the print media that matches the user profile and a second portion of the print media that does not match the user profile. Supplemental content is obtained based on content of the first portion of the print media. A display of the supplemental content is positioned over the second portion of the print media.