The use of context as an input is one of the major characteristics of Ubiquitous Computing systems. This paper looks into the structural and the systematic features of context in ...
In this paper, a colour text/graphics segmentation is proposed. Firstly, it takes advantage of colour properties by computing a relevant hybrid colour model. Then an edge detectio...
We report on the effectiveness of language models for personalization of retrieval results based on a searcher’s preference for document genre. In principle, such preferences ca...
Gheorghe Muresan, Catherine L. Smith, Michael Cole...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the possibility of obtaining a kernel machine that is sparse in feature space and smooth in output space. Smooth in output space implies that t...
We propose a content-based information retrieval (CBIR) method that models known relationships between multimedia objects as a hierarchical tree-structure incorporating additional ...