Patent document images maintained by the U.S. patent database have a specific format, in which figures and text descriptions are separated into different sections. This makes it...
Image data is as common as textual data in this digital world. There is an urgent demand of image management tools as efficient as those text search engines. Decades of research on...
Image auto-annotation, i.e., the association of words to whole images, has attracted considerable attention. In particular, unsupervised, probabilistic latent variable models of t...
Interpretation of paper drawings has received a good deal of attention over the last decade. Progress has also been made in related areas such as direct interpretation of human dr...
Background: With the growing number of public repositories for high-throughput genomic data, it is of great interest to combine the results produced by independent research groups...