The semantic web is based on ontologies and metadata that indexes resources using ontologies. This indexing is called annotation. Ontology based information retrieval is an operati...
Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return a lot of irrelevant documents when the users’ queries are not specific enough. To...
A major shortcoming of discriminative recognition and detection methods is their noise sensitivity, both during training and recognition. This may lead to very sensitive and britt...
Social media sharing web sites like Flickr allow users to annotate images with free tags, which significantly facilitate Web image search and organization. However, the tags assoc...
This paper presents an improved speaker verification technique that is especially appropriate for surveillance scenarios. The main idea is a metalearning scheme aimed at improving ...