Evaluating the visual quality of Web pages using a computational aesthetic approach

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 337-346

  Wu, Ou ^a   Chen, Yunfei ^a   Li, Bing ^a   Hu, Weiming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Learning; Semi structured image; Visual quality; Web mining

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; LEARNING; SEMI-STRUCTURED IMAGE; VISUAL QUALITY; WEB MINING;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952365999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935826.1935883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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