This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemen...
We describe the Informediatm News-on-Demand system. News-on-Demand is an innovative example of indexing and searching broadcast video and audio material by text content. The fully...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael J. Witbrock, Alexa...
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 ...
The Mixed Raster Content (MRC) ITU document compression standard (T.44) specifies a multilayer decomposition model for compound documents into two contone image layers and a binar...
We all encounter many documents on a daily basis that we do not have time to process in their entirety. Nevertheless, we lack good tools to rapidly skim and identify key informati...