— A large number of tools has recently emerged supporting information management for individuals in their social context. Semantic technologies play an important role in the deve...
Exponentially growing photo collections motivate the needs for automatic image annotation for effective manipulations (e.g., search, browsing). Most of the prior works rely on sup...
The task of similarity search in image databases has been studied for decades, while there have been many feature extraction techniques proposed. Among the mass of low-level techni...
Closing the semantic gap in content based image retrieval (CBIR) basically requires the knowledge of the user's intention which is usually translated into a sequence of quest...
In a typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system, query results are a set of images sorted by feature similarities with respect to the query. However, images with high fea...