Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Libraries have traditionally used manual image annotation for indexing and then later retrieving their image collections. However, manual image annotation is an expensive and labo...
Based on the local keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a "bag-of-visualwords (BoW)" and this representation has appeared promising ...
Yu-Gang Jiang, Jun Yang 0003, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexa...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for learning generic visual vocabulary. We use diffusion maps to au-tomatically learn a semantic visual vocabulary from ab-undant quantiz...
Jingen Liu (University of Central Florida), Yang Y...
Objects in the world can be arranged into a hierarchy based on their semantic meaning (e.g. organism ? animal ? feline ? cat). What about defining a hierarchy based on the visual ...
Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Andrew Zisserman, W...