Image databases are nowadays widely exploited in a number of different contexts, ranging from history of art, through medicine, to education. Existing querying paradigms are based ...
Current image retrieval systems do not provide users with adequate interfaces able to reduce the semantic gap existing between the high-level semantics of images (as perceived by t...
—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...
Query suggestion is an effective approach to improve the usability of image search. Most existing search engines are able to automatically suggest a list of textual query terms b...
Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Ze...
The variety of features available to represent multimedia data constitutes a rich pool of information. However, the plethora of data poses a challenge in terms of feature selectio...