Search result diversification is a natural approach for tackling ambiguous queries. Nevertheless, not all queries are equally ambiguous, and hence different queries could bene...
Automatically assigning keywords to images is of great interest as it allows one to retrieve, index, organize and understand large collections of image data. Many techniques have b...
In urban areas, buildings are often used as landmarks for localization. Reliable and efficient recognition of buildings is crucial for enabling this functionality. Motivated by t...
Distance metric is widely used in similarity estimation. In this paper we find that the most popular Euclidean and Manhattan distance may not be suitable for all data distribution...
The research community has turned to create Semantic Overlay Networks for information retrieval in large scale peer-to-peer networks. Much research work in semantic overlay protoc...