Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...
Abstract. The distribution of a class of objects, such as images depicting a specific topic, can be studied by observing the best-matching units (BMUs) of the objects’ feature v...
Abstract. Huge amounts of digital visual content are currently available, thus placing a demand for advanced multimedia search engines. The contribution of this paper is the presen...
Video signatures are compact representations of video sequences designed for efficient similarity measurement. In this paper, we propose a feature extraction technique to support ...
In this paper we present VOCUS: a robust computational attention system for goal-directed search. A standard bottom-up architecture is extended by a top-down component, enabling th...