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ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
IJIT
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Restartings: A Technique to Improve Classic Genetic Algorithms' Performance
In this contribution, a way to enhance the performance of the classic Genetic Algorithm is proposed. The idea of restarting a Genetic Algorithm is applied in order to obtain better...
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, Georgios A. Tsirogiannis...
UM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Google Shared. A Case-Study in Social Search
Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are lo...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Improving non-visual web access using context
To browse the Web, blind people have to use screen readers, which process pages sequentially, making browsing timeconsuming. We present a prototype system, CSurf, which provides a...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, Dipanjan Das, I. V. ...
PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...