Exploding amounts of multimedia data increasingly require automatic indexing and classification, e.g. training classifiers to produce high-level features, or semantic concepts, ch...
Wei Jiang, Eric Zavesky, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander ...
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
On photo sharing websites like Flickr and Zooomr, users are offered the possibility to assign tags to their uploaded pictures. Using these tags to find interesting groups of sem...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a given query has become a popular problem at the intersection of web search, machine learning, and informatio...
It is well known that many hard tasks considered in machine learning and data mining can be solved in a rather simple and robust way with an instanceand distance-based approach. In...