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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Learning to re-rank: query-dependent image re-ranking using click data
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Vidit Jain, Manik Varma
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Link Graph Analysis for Adult Images Classification
In order to protect an image search engine's users from undesirable results adult images' classifier should be built. The information about links from websites to images...
Evgeny Kharitonov, Anton Slesarev, Ilya Muchnik, F...
RIAO
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Image indexation and content based search using pre-attentive similarities
We introduce in this paper the general architecture of an image search engine based on pre-attentive similarities. The components of this system are presented and some of them are...
Alexander Heinrichs, Dimitri Koubaroulis, Barbara ...
MM
2004
ACM
133views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Intuitive and effective interfaces for WWW image search engines
Web image search engine has become an important tool to organize digital images on the Web. However, most commercial search engines still use a list presentation while little effo...
Zhiwei Li, Xing Xie, Hao Liu, Xiaoou Tang, Mingjin...
MM
2006
ACM
217views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
IGroup: a web image search engine with semantic clustering of search results
In this demo, we present IGroup, a Web image search engine that organizes the search results into semantic clusters. Different from all existing Web image search results clusterin...
Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, ...
WACV
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Location-based Services using Image Search
Recent developments in image search has made them sufficiently efficient to be used in real-time applications. GPS has become a popular navigation tool. While GPS information pr...
Pieter-Paulus Vertongen, Dan Witzner Hansen
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
IGroup: presenting web image search results in semantic clusters
Current web image search engines still rely on user typing textual description: query word(s) for visual targets. As the queries are often short, general or even ambiguous, the im...
Shuo Wang, Feng Jing, Jibo He, Qixing Du, Lei Zhan...
ECCV
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Visual Category Filter for Google Images
We extend the constellation model to include heterogeneous parts which may represent either the appearance or the geometry of a region of the object. The parts and their spatial co...
Robert Fergus, Pietro Perona, Andrew Zisserman
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
FaceTracer: A Search Engine for Large Collections of Images with Faces
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
Neeraj Kumar, Peter N. Belhumeur, Shree K. Nayar