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April—June 2012

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Social media provides new opportunities for sharing health-related data online. Although crowdsourcing medical diagnoses is not yet the trend, people are using social media to seek answers and better understand treatments and outcomes as doctors, experts, and patients converge online. Read full article »

About IEEE MultiMedia

IEEE MultiMedia covers multiple media types, used harmoniously together in creating new experiences in areas such as image processing, video processing, audio analysis, text retrieval and understanding, data mining and analysis, and data fusion.

Articles from IEEE MultiMedia

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Image Retrieval in Forensics: Tattoo Image Database Application

Tattoos are a "soft biometric" used increasingly to identify criminals. Enhancements to a content-based image-retrieval system for tattoos explicitly address low-quality image matching. Read full article »

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Face Matching and Retrieval in Forensics Applications

This article surveys forensic face-recognition approaches and the challenges they face in improving matching and retrieval results as well as processing low-quality images. Read full article »

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