We propose a nonparametric framework based on the beta process for discovering temporal patterns within a heterogenous video collection. Starting from quantized local motion descr...
This paper describes our first large-scale retrieval attempt in TREC-7 using DSIR. DSIR is a vector space based retrieval system in which semantic similarity between words, docume...
This paper studies the effect of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) on two different tasks: multimedia document retrieval (MDR) and automatic image annotation (AIA). The contributio...
Trong-Ton Pham, Nicolas Maillot, Joo-Hwee Lim, Jea...
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
Although commonly used in both commercial and experimental information retrieval systems, thesauri have not demonstrated consistent bene ts for retrieval performance, and it is di...