A statistical correlation model for image retrieval is proposed. This model captures the semantic relationships among images in a database from simple statistics of userprovided r...
The retrieval of videos of interest from large video collections is a main open problem which calls for the definition of new video content characterization techniques in term of ...
Existing index selection tools rely on heuristics to efficiently search within the large space of alternative solutions and to minimize the overhead of using the query optimizer ...
In many data-centric applications, it is desirable to use OWL as an expressive schema language with which one expresses constraints that must be satisfied by instance data. Howeve...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...