The rapidity with which digital information, particularly video is being generated, has necessitated the development of tools for efficient search of these digital media. Content...
Shih-Fu Chang, William Chen, Horace J. Meng, Hari ...
A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
Background: Ontologies such as the Gene Ontology can enable the construction of complex queries over biological information in a conceptual way, however existing systems to do thi...
A combination of several classifiers using global features for the content description of medical images is proposed. Beside well known texture histogram features, downscaled repr...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...