We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
This paper discusses how to utilize both magnitude and phase information obtained from the complex directional lter bank (CDFB) for the purpose of texture image retrieval. The rel...
Retrieval and indexing in multimedia databases has been an active topic both in the Information Retrieval and computer vision communities for a long time. In this paper we propose...
This paper discusses our participation in INEX using the TIJAH XML-IR system. We have enriched the TIJAH system, which follows a standard layered database architecture, with severa...
The problem of content based image retrieval (CBIR) has traditionally been investigated within a framework that emphasises the explicit formulation of a query: users initiate an au...