A survey and experimental evaluation of image spam filtering techniques

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1436-1446

  Biggio, Battista ^a   Fumera, Giorgio ^a   Pillai, Ignazio ^a   Roli, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Document categorisation; Image spam; Spam filtering

Indexed keywords

ADVERSARIAL ENVIRONMENTS; CONTENT BASED FILTERING; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT CATEGORISATION; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; IMAGE SPAM; MULTIMEDIA DATA; PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES; SPAM FILTER; SPAM FILTERING; SPAM FILTERING TECHNIQUE; SPAM MESSAGES; SPAMMERS; TEXT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER VISION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

INTERNET;

EID: 79956346771     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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