Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is a group of techniques that analyzes the visual features (such as color, shape, texture) of an example image or image subregion to find simi...
Relevance feedback is an important mechanism for narrowing the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval and the process involves the user labeling positive and negative images...
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...