The recent advances in non-scalable video encoding brought by the H.264/AVC standard offered significant improvements in terms of rate-distortion performance. This paper proposes ...
Determining similarities among multimedia objects is a fundamental task in many content-based retrieval, analysis, mining, and exploration applications. Among state-of-the-art sim...
Feature points for image correspondence are often selected according to subjective criteria (e.g. edge density, nostrils). In this paper, we present a general, non-subjective crit...
Query auto-completion (QAC) is a common feature in modern search engines. High quality QAC candidates enhance search experience by saving users time that otherwise would be spent ...
An indexing model is the heart of an Information Retrieval (IR) system. Data structures such as term based inverted indices have proved to be very effective for IR using vector sp...