Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
Collaborative Filtering, considered by many researchers as the most important technique for information filtering, has been extensively studied by both academic and industrial co...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new salient object segmentation method, which is based on combining a saliency measure with a conditional random field (CRF) model. The propo...
Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala, Mikko Salo, Janne Heikkil...
Abstract. The concept of melodic similarity has become increasingly relevant in the light of music retrieval and music content processing systems. We propose a new way of measuring...
Automatic video search based on semantic concept detectors has recently received significant attention. Since the number of available detectors is much smaller than the size of h...