In recent years, with the rapid proliferation of digital images, the need to search and retrieve the images accurately, efficiently, and conveniently is becoming more acute. Automa...
The binary form of an image does not tell what the image is about. It is possible to retrieve images from a database using pattern matching techniques, but usually textual descript...
Social bookmark services like del.icio.us enable easy annotation for users to organize their resources. Collaborative tagging provides useful index for information retrieval. Howev...
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is currently limited because of the lack of representational power of the low-level image features, which fail to properly represent the actual...
As part of the general growth and diversification of media in different modalities, the presence of information in the form of human speech in the world-wide body of digital conte...