With the emergence of applications that require content-based similarity retrieval, techniques to support such a retrieval paradigm over database systems have emerged as a critica...
Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Kaushik Chakrabarti, ...
We propose a new Web search system that helps users clarify their information needs through interaction. The system represents the user's information needs using a query grap...
In this paper, an optimal relevance algorithm is proposed, which adapts the response of a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system to the user's information needs. In part...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Most of the existing image retrieval systems take the textual query from the user and utilize the metadata associated with the database images to retrieve the result. However, the...