With the prosperity of tourism and Web 2.0 technologies, more and more people have willingness to share their travel experiences on the Web (e.g., weblogs, forums, or Web 2.0 comm...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Changhu Wang, Rong Xiao, Jiang...
Presentation of search results in Web-based information retrieval (IR) systems has been dominated by a textual form of information such as the title, snippet, URL, and/or file type...
We present a text-based approach for the automatic indexing and retrieval of digital photographs taken at crime scenes. Our research prototype, SOCIS, goes beyond keyword-based ap...
Searching for images of people is an essential task for image and video search engines. However, current search engines have limited capabilities for this task since they rely on ...
The efficiency of compressing color-quantized images using general purpose lossless image coding methods depends on the degree of smoothness of the index images. A wellknown and v...