The problem of similarity search (query-by-content) has attracted much research interest. It is a difficult problem because of the inherently high dimensionality of the data. The ...
This paper introduces a novel method for noise reduction in medical images based on concepts of the Non-Local Means algorithm. The main objective has been to develop a method that ...
Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...
Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (PLSA) has become a popular topic model for image clustering. However, the traditional PLSA method considers each image (document) independen...
Searching for small objects (e.g., logos) in images is a critical yet challenging problem. It becomes more difficult when target objects differ significantly from the query object...