Many photo agencies use the web to sell access to their image collections. Despite significant security measures, images may be stolen and distributed, making it necessary to det...
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
‘Rich media’ is a term that implies the integration of all of the advances we have made in the mobile space delivering music, speech, text, graphics and video. This is true, b...
In this paper we present a method to jointly optimise the relevance and the diversity of the results in image retrieval. Without considering diversity, image retrieval systems oft...
Thomas Deselaers, Tobias Gass, Philippe Dreuw, Her...
Event search is the problem of identifying events or activity of interest in a large database storing long sequences of activity. In this paper, our topic is the problem of identi...
Panagiotis Papapetrou, Paul Doliotis, Vassilis Ath...