In this demonstration, we present an image retrieval system to support multimedia authoring and presentation. An affinity-based mechanism, Markov Model Mediator (MMM), is used as ...
Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Na Zhao, Chengcui Z...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important...
Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, Da...
In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
While current search engines seem to easily handle the size of the data available on the Internet, they cannot provide fresh results. The most up-to-date data always resides on the...
Leonidas Galanis, Yuan Wang, Shawn R. Jeffery, Dav...