This paper adopts the premise that the ‘semantic gap' is an incompletely surveyed feature in the landscape of visual image retrieval, and proposes a framework within which t...
The retrieval of stored images matching an input configuration is an important form of content-based retrieval. Exhaustive processing (i.e., retrieval of the best solutions) of 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...
Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of e...
These days there are a lot of vector drawings available for people to integrate into documents. These come in a variety of formats, such as Corel, Postscript, CGM, WMF and recentl...
Manuel J. Fonseca, Bruno Barroso, Pedro Ribeiro, J...