Personalized search has gained great popularity to improve search effectiveness in recent years. The objective of personalized search is to provide users with information tailored ...
The encoding process of image vector quantization (VQ) is very heavy due to it performing a lot of k-dimensional Euclidean distance computations. In order to speed up VQ encoding,...
Determining similarities among multimedia objects is a fundamental task in many content-based retrieval, analysis, mining, and exploration applications. Among state-of-the-art sim...
Millions of users retrieve information from the Internet using search engines. Mining these user sessions can provide valuable information about the quality of user experience and...
Using local features with nearest neighbor search and direct voting obtains excellent results for various image classification tasks. In this work we decompose the method into its...
Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney, Roberto Paredes, Tobi...