Abstract. This paper presents a series of experiments investigating the effectiveness of query-independent features extracted from retrieved objects to predict relevancy. Features...
Extracting information from web pages is an important problem; it has several applications such as providing improved search results and construction of databases to serve user qu...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, ...
Based on high-level geometric knowledge, especially symmetry, imposed upon objects in images, we demonstrate in this paper how to edit images in terms of correct 3-D shape and rel...
This paper identifies and explores the problem of seed selection in a web-scale crawler. We argue that seed selection is not a trivial but very important problem. Selecting proper...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...