: Generic systems for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), such as QBIC [7] cannot be used to solve domain-specific image retrieval problems, as for example, the identification of...
Although Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have been successfully applied to solve a large number of classification and regression problems, they suffer from the catastrophic forgetti...
Machine learning techniques such as tree induction have become accepted tools for developing generalisations of large data sets, typically for use with production rule systems in p...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Visual codebook has been popular in object classification as well as action analysis. However, its performance is often sensitive to the codebook size that is usually predefined. ...