This article describes the use of the medGIFT and easyIR retrieval systems for three of the four ImageCLEF 2005 retrieval tasks. We participated in the ad–hoc retrieval task that...
Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques are often abused to promote websites among search results. This is a practice known as blackhat SEO. In this paper we tackle a newly em...
Learning the user’s semantics for CBIR involves two different sources of information: the similarity relations entailed by the content-based features, and the relevance relatio...
We propose a new Web search system that helps users clarify their information needs through interaction. The system represents the user's information needs using a query grap...
Conventional approaches to image retrieval are based on the assumption that relevant images are physically near the query image in some feature space. This is the basis of the clu...