The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...
It has been claimed that topic metadata can be used to improve the accuracy of text searches. Here, we test this claim by examining the contribution of metadata to effective search...
Given an unstructured collection of captioned images of cluttered scenes featuring a variety of objects, our goal is to learn both the names and appearances of the objects. Only a...
Michael Jamieson, Afsaneh Fazly, Sven J. Dickinson...
Rank-based fusion is indispensable in multiple search setups in lack of item retrieval scores, such as in meta-search with non-cooperative engines. We introduce a novel, simple, an...
Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konstantinos Zagoris, ...
In this paper, we propose a multimodal Web image retrieval technique based on multi-graph enabled active learning. The main goal is to leverage the heterogeneous data on the Web t...