Tattoo images on human body have been routinely collected and used in law enforcement to assist in suspect and victim identification. However, the current practice of matching tat...
Anil K. Jain, Jung-Eun Lee, Rong Jin, Nicholas Gre...
Many large-scale Web applications that require ranked top-k retrieval are implemented using inverted indices. An inverted index represents a sparse term-document matrix, where non...
George Beskales, Marcus Fontoura, Maxim Gurevich, ...
Dublin City University (DCU) and University of Tampere (UTA) participated in the ImageCLEF 2007 photographic ad-hoc retrieval task with several monolingual and bilingual runs. Our...
This paper proposes a learning approach for the merging process in multilingual information retrieval (MLIR). To conduct the learning approach, we also present a large number of f...
Implicit user feedback, including click-through and subsequent browsing behavior, is crucial for evaluating and improving the quality of results returned by search engines. Severa...