We present a method being developed to extract information about characters’ emotions in films. It is suggested that this information can help describe higher levels of multimed...
Multimedia Information Retrieval (IR) techniques and associated systems are now numerous and justify the development of strategies and actions to objectively evaluate their capabi...
Databases of 3D shapes have become widespread for a variety of applications, and a key research problem is searching these databases for similar shapes. This paper introduces a me...
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...
Question Answering has been the recent focus of information retrieval research; many systems just incorporate a search engine as a black box and most effort has been devoted to the...