The rapidity with which digital information, particularly video is being generated, has necessitated the development of tools for efficient search of these digital media. Content...
Shih-Fu Chang, William Chen, Horace J. Meng, Hari ...
Defining a measure of similarity between queries is an interesting and difficult problem. A reliable query-similarity measure can be used in a variety of applications such as que...
Ilaria Bordino, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Ar...
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Voluminous medical images are generated daily. They are critical assets for medical diagnosis, research, and teaching. To facilitate automatic indexing and retrieval of large medic...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are a highly dynamic, decentralized infrastructure for large-scale data integration. They consist of a dynamic set of autonomous peers...