We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
Query suggestion is an effective approach to improve the usability of image search. Most existing search engines are able to automatically suggest a list of textual query terms b...
Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Ze...
We propose an unsupervised approach to learn associations between continuous-valued attributes from different modalities. These associations are used to construct a multi-modal t...
Object search in a visual scene is a highly challenging and computationally intensive task. Most of the current object detection techniques extract features from images for classi...
Abstract--Knowledge is attributed to human whose problemsolving behavior is subjective and complex. In today's knowledge economy, the need to manage knowledge produced by a co...