The most popular approach to large scale image retrieval is based on the bag-of-visual-word (BoV) representation of images. The spatial information is usually reintroduced as a po...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Relevance feedback has been considered as a means of incorporating learning into information retrieval systems for quite sometime now. This paper discusses the research results of...