In this paper, we cast the image-ranking problem into the task of identifying "authority" nodes on an inferred visual similarity graph and propose an algorithm to analyz...
Abstract: Multimedia databases are increasingly common in science, business, entertainment and many other applications. Their size and high dimensionality of features are major cha...
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
In this paper, we propose a Semantic Graphs for Image Search (SGIS) system, which provides a novel way for image search by utilizing collaborative knowledge in Wikipedia and netwo...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...