Abstract. We promote the use of explicit medical knowledge to solve retrieval of information both visual and textual. For text, this knowledge is a set of concepts from a Meta-thes...
With the exponential growth of Web 2.0 applications, tags have been used extensively to describe the image contents on the Web. Due to the noisy and sparse nature in the human gene...
Traditional routing indices in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are mainly designed for document retrieval applications and maintain aggregated one-dimensional values representing the ...
Interpreting the relevance of a user-contributed tag with respect to the visual content of an image is an emerging problem in social image retrieval. In the literature this proble...
Image clustering is useful in many retrieval and classification applications. The main goal of image clustering is to partition a given dataset into salient clusters such that the...