In Genetic algorithms it is not easy to evaluate the confidence level in whether a GA run may have missed a complete area of good points, and whether the global optimum was found....
Exponentially growing photo collections motivate the needs for automatic image annotation for effective manipulations (e.g., search, browsing). Most of the prior works rely on sup...
We introduce NPIC, an image classification system that focuses on synthetic (e.g., non-photographic) images. We use class-specific keywords in an image search engine to create a no...
Conventional document search techniques are constrained by attempting to match individual keywords or phrases to source documents. Thus, these techniques miss out documents that co...
The fast growth of multimedia information in image and video databases has triggered research on efficient retrieval methods. This paper deals with structural queries, a type of c...