— One of the critical issues in search engines is the size of search indexes: as the number of documents handled by an engine increases, the search must preserve its efficiency,...
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel poster image matching system for wireless multimedia applications. We propose a method that incorporates both color and layout information of...
As biometric authentication systems become more prevalent, it is becoming increasingly important to evaluate their performance. The current paper introduces a novel statistical me...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Emergent Semantics is a new paradigm for inferring semantic meaning from implicit feedback by a sufficiently large number of users of an object retrieval system. In this paper, we ...