Color histogram is an important part of content-based image retrieval systems. It is a common understanding that histograms that adapt to images can represent their color distribu...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new distance metric for probability density functions (PDF). The main advantage of this metric is that unlike the popular Kullback-Liebler (KL)...
This paper presents an image retrieval method based on region shape similarity. In our approach, we first segment images into primitive regions and then combine some of the primit...
The classical, vector space model for text retrieval is shown to give better results (up to 29% better in our experiments) if WordNet synsets are chosen as the indexing space, ins...
Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, Irina Chugur, Juan ...
Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...