Automatic image annotation is a promising solution to enable semantic image retrieval via keywords. In this paper, we propose a multi-level approach to annotate the semantics of n...
The performances of many image analysis tasks depend on the image resolution at which they are applied. Traditionally, resolution selection methods rely on spatial derivatives of i...
Efstathios Hadjidemetriou, Michael D. Grossberg, S...
Photo community sites such as Flickr and Picasa Web Album host a massive amount of personal photos with millions of new photos uploaded every month. These photos constitute an ove...
Liangliang Cao, Jie Yu, Jiebo Luo, Thomas S. Huang
Abstract. This paper presents an automatic approach to mining collections of maps from the Web. Our method harvests images from the Web and then classifies them as maps or non-map...
Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...