This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Without textual descriptions or label information of images, searching semantic concepts in image databases is still a very challenging task. While automatic annotation techniques...
Automatic facial feature localization has been a longstanding challenge in the field of computer vision for several decades. This can be explained by the large variation a face i...
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Joan Perez, Fernando De la Torre
A method for applying weighted decoding to error-correcting output code ensembles of binary classifiers is presented. This method is sensitive to the target class in that a separa...
The performance of a new content-free approach to image retrieval is demonstrated. Accumulated user feedback data that specify which images are (ir)relevant to each other and keywo...