Distributed hash tables are increasingly being proposed as the core substrate for content delivery applications in the Internet, such as cooperative Web caches, Web index and sear...
The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a phenomenon we call “web spam”, that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search eng...
Representation of relative spatial relations between objects is required in many multimedia database applications. Quantitative representation of spatial relations taking into acc...
Conventional approaches to image retrieval are based on the assumption that relevant images are physically near the query image in some feature space. This is the basis of the clu...
Libraries have traditionally used manual image annotation for indexing and then later retrieving their image collections. However, manual image annotation is an expensive and labo...