A “scoring rule” is an assignment of a value to every tuple (of varying sizes). This paper is concerned with the issue of how to modify a scoring rule to apply to the case whe...
Many applications would benefit if media objects such as images could be selected and classified (or clustered) such that "conceptually similar" images are grouped toget...
In this paper we unify two supposedly distinct tasks in multimedia retrieval. One task involves answering queries with a few examples. The other involves learning models for seman...
The existing standard for object-oriented databases (ODMG) provides no facility for storing behaviour. This lack of stored behaviour introduces problems for generic applications as...
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...