In many retrieval tasks, one important goal involves retrieving a diverse set of results (e.g., documents covering a wide range of topics for a search query). First of all, this r...
The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
Search Engines today often return a large volume of results with possibly a few relevant results. The notion of relevance is subjective and depends on the user and the context of ...
Abstract. Cast indexing is a very important application for contentbased video browsing and retrieval, since the characters in feature-length films and TV series are always the ma...
Wei Fan, Tao Wang, Jean-Yves Bouguet, Wei Hu, Yimi...
We present an efficient system for video search that maximizes the use of human bandwidth, while at the same time exploiting the machine’s ability to learn in real-time from use...
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun...