The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
Visual information retrieval (VIR) is a research area with more than 300 scientific publications every year. Technological progress lets surveys become out of date within a short ...
We have developed a novel system for content-based image retrieval in large, unannotated databases. The system is called PicSOM, and it is based on tree structured self-organizing...
Jorma Laaksonen, Markus Koskela, Sami Laakso, Erkk...
A neural-network-based approach is proposed in this paper providing multimedia systems with the ability to adapt their performance to the specific needs and characteristics of thei...
George Votsis, Nikolaos D. Doulamis, Anastasios D....
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...