Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...
In this paper, we draw an analogy between image retrieval and text retrieval and propose a visual phrase-based approach to retrieve images containing desired objects. The visual p...
: Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extr...
The size of the Web as well as user bases of search systems continue to grow exponentially. Consequently, providing subsecond query response times and high query throughput become...
Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Claudio Lucc...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...