Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Multimedia similarity search has been playing a critical role in many novel applications. Typically, multimedia objects are described by high-dimensional feature vectors (or point...
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jiajun Liu, Xiaofang Zhou
Abstract. To automatically retrieve documents or images from a database, retrieval systems use similarity measures to compare a request based on features extracted from the documen...
In modern application domains such as multimedia, molecular biology and medical imaging, similarity search in database systems is becoming an increasingly important task. Especial...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Stefan Brecheisen, Peer Kr&oum...
Improving the precision of information retrieval has been a challenging issue on Chinese Web. As exemplified by Chinese recipes on the Web, it is not easy/natural for people to us...