Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
—Web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google Image Search, Bing Image Search) mostly rely on surrounding text features. It is difficult for them to interpret users’ search int...
Xiaoou Tang, Ke Liu, Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaogan...
Near-duplicate image detection is a critical task in copyright protection. More challenging than the common similarity search, this task requires not only the retrieval of the top...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...
Automatic video search based on semantic concept detectors has recently received significant attention. Since the number of available detectors is much smaller than the size of h...