Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
This paper presents recent work on a multimedia retrieval project at Cambridge University and Olivetti Research Limited ORL. We present novel techniques that allow extremely rapid...
M. G. Brown, J. T. Foote, Gareth J. F. Jones, Kare...
We describe a system for the retrieval on the basis of layout similarity of document images belonging to collections stored in digital libraries. Layout regions are extracted and ...
The Ambient Spotlight is a prototype system based on personal meeting capture using a laptop and a portable microphone array. The system automatically recognises and structures th...
With large databases of document images available, a method for users to find keywords in documents will be useful. One approach is to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ...