This paper presents a unified framework for 3D shape retrieval. The method supports multimodal queries (2D images, sketches, 3D objects) by introducing a novel view-based approach...
Bag-of-visual Words (BoW) image representation is getting popular in computer vision and multimedia communities. However, experiments show that the traditional BoW representation ...
The implementation of word spotting is not an easy procedure and it gets even worse in the case of historical documents since it requires character recognition and indexing of the...
Within the emergent Semantic Web framework, the use of traditional web search engines based on keywords provided by the users is not adequate anymore. Instead, new methods based o...
Simple word matching between the user query and document is common, as are mis-matches of meaning that occur as a consequence, and errors in recall. These defects in the "bag...