Similarity search is widely used in multimedia retrieval systems to find the most similar ones for a given object. Some similarity measures, however, are not metric, leading to e...
In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), relevant images are identified based on their similarities to query images. Most CBIR algorithms are hindered by the semantic gap between ...
Luo Si, Rong Jin, Steven C. H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
Blog post opinion retrieval aims at finding blog posts that are relevant and opinionated about a user’s query. In this paper we propose a simple probabilistic model for assigni...
In this paper, we document our efforts at INEX 2007 where we participated in the Ad Hoc Track, the Link the Wiki Track, and the Interactive Track that continued from INEX 2006. Ou...