This paper investigates several issues in the problem of detecting handwritten markings, or annotations, on printed documents. One issue is to define the appropriate units over wh...
One of the fundamental problems in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been the gap between low-level visual features and high-level semantic concepts. To narrow down this gap...
We present a new framework for characterizing and retrieving objects in cluttered scenes. This CBIR system is based on a new representation describing every object taking into acc...
Jaume Amores, Nicu Sebe, Petia Radeva, Theo Gevers...
In this paper we present a general framework to study sequences of search activities performed by a user. Our framework provides (i) a vocabulary to discuss types of features, mod...
Qiaozhu Mei, Kristina Klinkner, Ravi Kumar, Andrew...
In this paper we address the problem of image retrieval from millions of database images. We improve the vocabulary tree based approach by introducing contextual weighting of loca...
Xiaoyu Wang, Ming Yang, Timothee Cour, Shenghuo Zh...