The quality of document content, which is an issue that is usually ignored for the traditional ad hoc retrieval task, is a critical issue for Web search. Web pages have a huge var...
This paper describes the medical image retrieval and medical image annotation tasks of ImageCLEF 2007. Separate sections describe each of the two tasks, with the participation and ...
A combination of several classifiers using global features for the content description of medical images is proposed. Beside well known texture histogram features, downscaled repr...
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
We investigate the issue of sign language automatic phonetic subunit modeling, that is completely data driven and without any prior phonetic information. A first step of visual p...