The attentive region extraction is a challenging issue for semantic interpretation of image and video content. The successful attentive region extraction greatly facilitates image...
This paper describes the application of techniques derived from text retrieval research to the content-based querying of image databases. Specically, the use of inverted les, fre...
This paper proposes an agent community based information retrieval method, which uses agent communities to manage and look up information related to users. An agent works as a dele...
Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to im...
Ranking of query/search answers, although introduced by early information retrieval systems, has become mandatory for internet searches. When the answers of a query or search are ...