Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Current web image search engines still rely on user typing textual description: query word(s) for visual targets. As the queries are often short, general or even ambiguous, the im...
Shuo Wang, Feng Jing, Jibo He, Qixing Du, Lei Zhan...
Modeling and recognizing landmarks at world-scale is a
useful yet challenging task. There exists no readily available
list of worldwide landmarks. Obtaining reliable visual
mode...
Yantao Zheng, Ming Zhao 0003, Yang Song, Hartwig A...
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...