Image spam clustering: An unsupervised approach

1st ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics - MiFor'09, Co-located with the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 25-30

  Chen, Wei Bang ^a   Zhang, Chengcui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Computer forensics; Image spam

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND TEXTURES; COMPUTER FORENSICS; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; E-MAIL SPAM; FEATURE FUSION; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ATTACHMENTS; IMAGE CLUSTERING; INFORMATION HIDING; SPAM EMAILS; SPAM FILTER; SPATIAL LAYOUT; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; VISUAL APPEARANCE; VISUAL FEATURE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SPAMMING; TEXTURES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 72249099659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1631081.1631088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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