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...
Image auto-annotation, i.e., the association of words to whole images, has attracted considerable attention. In particular, unsupervised, probabilistic latent variable models of t...
Browsing and finding pictures in large-scale and heterogeneous collections is an important issue, most particularly for online photo sharing applications. Since such services know...
This paper introduces methods for automatic annotation of landmark photographs via learning textual tags and visual features of landmarks from landmark photographs that are appropr...
Content based image retrieval (CBIR) has been well studied in the computer vision and multimedia community. Content free image retrieval (CFIR) methods, and their complementary cha...