Extracting key-frames is the first step for efficient content-based indexing, browsing and retrieval of the video data in commercial movies. Most of the existing research deals wi...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
— Query term suggestion that interactively expands the queries is an indispensable technique to help users formulate high-quality queries and has attracted much attention in the ...
According to some current thinking, a very large number of semantic concepts could provide researcher a novel way to characterize video and be utilized for video retrieval and und...