We develop a framework for the automatic discovery of query classes for query-class-dependent search models in multimodal retrieval. The framework automatically discovers useful q...
In this paper, we propose and investigate a new user scenario for face annotation, in which users are allowed to multi-select a group of photographs and assign names to these phot...
Lei Zhang, Yuxiao Hu, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Ho...
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
—Social media networks contain both content and context-specific information. Most existing methods work with either of the two for the purpose of multimedia mining and retrieva...
Guo-Jun Qi, Charu C. Aggarwal, Qi Tian, Heng Ji, T...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...