Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
In classic InformationRetrieval systems a relevant document will not be retrieved in response to a query if the document and query representations do not share at least one term. T...
Determining similarity is a fundamental task in querying multimedia databases in a content-based way. For this challenging task, there exist numerous similarity models which measu...
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...