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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool
Search systems have for some time provided users with the ability to request documents similar to a given document. Interfaces provide this feature via a link or button for each d...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Precision-Oriented Active Selection for Interactive Image Retrieval
Active learning methods have been considered with an increased interest in the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) community. Those methods used to be based on classical classifi...
Philippe Henri Gosselin, Matthieu Cord
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Cross-domain learning methods for high-level visual concept classification
Exploding amounts of multimedia data increasingly require automatic indexing and classification, e.g. training classifiers to produce high-level features, or semantic concepts, ch...
Wei Jiang, Eric Zavesky, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander ...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Kernel Sharing With Joint Boosting For Multi-Class Concept Detection
Object/scene detection by discriminative kernel-based classification has gained great interest due to its promising performance and flexibility. In this paper, unlike traditional ...
Wei Jiang, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander C. Loui