Burstiness, a phenomenon initially observed in text re-
trieval, is the property that a given visual element appears
more times in an image than a statistically independent
mode...
Many people take pictures of different city landmarks and post them to photo-sharing systems like Flickr. They also add tags and place photos in Flickr groups, created around parti...
Rabeeh Abbasi, Sergey Chernov, Wolfgang Nejdl, Ral...
The design and implementation of a search engine for lecture webcasts is described. A searchable text index is created allowing users to locate material within lecture videos foun...
John Adcock, Matthew Cooper, Laurent Denoue, Hamed...
Similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task in modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology, medical imaging, computer aid...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kr&oum...
Current face image retrieval methods achieve impressive results, but lack efficient ways to refine the search, particularly for geometric face attributes. Users cannot easily ...