Early TREC-style Question Answering Systems were characterized by the following features: (a) the answer of the question was known to be included in a given local corpus, (b) the ...
Matching based on local brightness is quite limited, because
small changes on local appearance invalidate the
constancy in brightness. The root of this limitation is its
treatme...
Ying Wu (Northwestern University), Jialue Fan (Nor...
We introduce a new image representation that encompasses both the general layout of groups of quantized local invariant descriptors as well as their relative frequency. A graph of...
An application for content-based annotation and retrieval of videos can be found in the sport domain, where videos are annotated in order to produce short summaries for news and sp...
Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo,...
Image retrieval based on content from digital libraries, multimedia databases, the Internet, and other sources has been an important problem addressed by several researchers. In t...