Filtering image spam with near-duplicate detection

4th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wang, Zhe ^a   Josephson, William ^a   Lv, Qin ^a   Charikar, Moses ^a   Li, Kai ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FALSE POSITIVE RATES; HIGH DETECTION RATE; NEAR-DUPLICATE DETECTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RANDOMIZATION ALGORITHM; RANDOMIZATION TECHNIQUES; VISION ALGORITHMS;

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EID: 84904804970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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