Structuring video data is necessary for its effective retrieval and summarization. In particular, collecting similar scenes from semantic aspects highly contributes to the structu...
Query expansion techniques generally select new query terms from a set of top ranked documents. Although a user’s manual judgment of those documents would much help to select goo...
Distance metric learning has been widely investigated in machine learning and information retrieval. In this paper, we study a particular content-based image retrieval application ...
In order to help users navigate an image search system, one could provide explicit information on a small set of images as to which of them are relevant or not to their task. Thes...
The structural features of XML components are an extra source of information that should be used in a contentoriented retrieval task on this type of documents. This paper explores...