Image auto-annotation, i.e., the association of words to whole images, has attracted considerable attention. In particular, unsupervised, probabilistic latent variable models of t...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Machine recognition of hand-filled forms is a challenging task. Form processing involves many activities including form field location, field frame boundary removal and data image...
This paper presents a formal framework for designing search algorithms which can identify target images by the spatial distribution of color, edge and texture attributes. The fram...
Conventional electrophotographic printers tend to produce Moir´e artifacts when used for printing images scanned from printed material such as books and magazines. We propose a n...
Hasib Siddiqui, Mireille Boutin, Charles A. Bouman