State-of-art image retrieval techniques have been developed to support high-level (semantics) querying and browsing of images. For certain user queries, it is also very important ...
We analyze a corpus of referring expressions collected from user interactions with a multimodal travel guide application. The analysis suggests that, in dramatic contrast to norma...
Artists, illustrators, photographers, and cinematographers have long used the principles of contrast and composition to guide visual attention. In this paper, we introduce geometry...
In this paper, a competition-based connectionist model for diagnostic problem-solving is adapted to information retrieval. In this model, we treat documents as \disorders" an...
Large data resources are ubiquitous in science and business. For these domains, an intuitive view on the data is essential to fully exploit the hidden knowledge. Often, these data...