In this paper, we present a novel image search system, image search by concept map. This system enables users to indicate not only what semantic concepts are expected to appear bu...
The GIST descriptor has recently received increasing attention in the context of scene recognition. In this paper we evaluate the search accuracy and complexity of the global GIST...
We propose to utilize micro features, namely facial marks (e.g., freckles, moles, and scars) to improve face recognition and retrieval performance. Facial marks can be used in thr...
In this paper, we investigate how an unlabeled image corpus can facilitate the segmentation of any given image. A simple yet efficient multi-task joint sparse representation model...
Social tags describe images from many aspects including the visual content observable from the images, the context and usage of images, user opinions and others. Not all tags are ...