Scalable similarity search is the core of many large scale learning or data mining applications. Recently, many research results demonstrate that one promising approach is creatin...
Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
Discrimination of images is necessary in many tasks, either understanding or indexing for example. Here we are concerned by indexing. More precisely we are working about initial l...
Readability assessment is a method to measure the difficulty of a piece of text material, and it is widely used in educational field to assist instructors to prepare appropriate m...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...