In previous work 6, 9, 10], we advanced a new technique for direct visual matching of images for the purposes of face recognition and image retrieval, using a probabilistic measur...
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is commonly used to match queries to documents in information retrieval applications. LSI has been shown to improve retrieval performance for some, ...
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
Recognizing the location and orientation of a mobile device from captured images is a promising application of image retrieval algorithms. Matching the query images to an existing...
Georg Schroth, Anas Al-Nuaimi, Robert Huitl, Flori...
This paper presents a general method for incorporating prior knowledge into kernel methods such as Support Vector Machines. It applies when the prior knowledge can be formalized b...