Because digital images are not meaningful by themselves, images are often coupled with some descriptive or qualitative data in an image database. Moreover the division of these da...
Storyboards, a grid layout of thumbnail images as surrogates representing video, have received much attention in video retrieval interfaces and published studies through the years...
Users’ search needs are often represented by words and images are retrieved according to such textual queries. Annotation words assigned to the stored images are most useful to ...
In this study, we describe our system at the Intellectual Property track of the 2009 CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF-IP). The CLEF-IP track addressed prior art searc...
This paper introduces three new contributions to the problems of image classification and image search. First, we propose a new image patch quantization algorithm. Other competitiv...