At its heart, music information retrieval is characterized by the need to find the similarity between pieces of music. However, “similar” does not mean “the same”. Theref...
As it stands the Internet’s “one size fits all” approach to information retrieval presents the average user with a serious information overload problem. Adaptive hypermedia s...
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
A number of researchers have been building high-level semantic concept detectors such as outdoors, face, building, etc., to help with semantic video retrieval. Using the TRECVID v...