In this article, we present our efforts1 on realizing transformation independence in open, extensible, and highly distributed multimedia information The main focus is on the abstra...
Given an image (or video clip, or audio song), how do we automatically assign keywords to it? The general problem is to find correlations across the media in a collection of multi...
Web documents present new challenges to conventional Information Retrieval (IR) technologies. This paper describes how these challenges are faced in FameIR, a multilingual multime...
In this paper, we present an experimental evaluation of three color-spatial retrieval techniques -- the signaturebased technique, the partition-based algorithm and the cluster-bas...
A multi-clip query requests multiple video clips. In this paper we address the multi-clip query optimization problem. We propose a new heuristics called Restricted Search Interval...
Ahmed Mostefaoui, Lionel Brunie, Harald Kosch, L&a...