For effective retrieval of visual information, statistical learning plays a pivotal role. Statistical learning in such a context faces at least two major mathematical challenges: ...
Recently, semantic image retrieval has attracted large amount of interest due to the rapid growth of digital image storage. However, existing approaches have severe limitations. I...
More and more digitized art images are accumulated and expanded in our daily life and techniques need to be established on how to organize and retrieval them. Though content-based...
Due to the ‘semantic gap’ between low-level visual features and the rich semantics in user’s mind, performance of traditional contentbased image retrieval systems is far from...
Without textual descriptions or label information of images, searching semantic concepts in image databases is still a very challenging task. While automatic annotation techniques...