Abstract: Efficient content-based similarity search in large multimedia databases requires efficient query processing algorithms for many practical applications. Especially in hi...
In large content-based image database applications, e cient information retrieval depends heavily on good indexing structures of the extracted features. While indexing techniques f...
The need to analyze and index large amounts of video information is becoming more important as the way people consume media continues to change. In recent years, the push to attac...
We describe a Markov chain method for sampling from the distribution of the hidden state sequence in a non-linear dynamical system, given a sequence of observations. This method u...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...