In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model for web image mining, which is based on concept-sensitive salient regions without human intervene. Our goal is to achieve a middle-...
According to Thomas L. Friedman, the world has become “flat” with collaboration among individuals in most if not all aspects of life becoming reality. The Internet is the back...
The topic of this communication is shape-similarity search for 3D-mesh models. We present and evaluate a composite 3D-shape feature vector (DESIRE), which is formed using depth bu...
Approximate string matching is an important paradigm in domains ranging from speech recognition to information retrieval and molecular biology. In this paper, we introduce a new f...
We describe a minimalist methodology to develop usage-based recommender systems for multimedia digital libraries. A prototype recommender system based on this strategy was impleme...
Johan Bollen, Michael L. Nelson, Gary Geisler, Raq...