Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
This paper adopts the premise that the ‘semantic gap' is an incompletely surveyed feature in the landscape of visual image retrieval, and proposes a framework within which t...
Due to the reliance on the textual information associated with an image, image search engines on the Web lack the discriminative power to deliver visually diverse search results. ...
Reinier H. van Leuken, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Ximena ...
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
With the advances in digital imagery, large accessible data storage, internet repositories, and image applications, information conveyed through images is gaining in importance. T...