Multimedia information retrieval systems design is currently considered a complex task since it requires an understanding of users specific way of searching, processing and using ...
Online photo sharing systems, such as Flickr and Picasa, provide a valuable source of human-annotated photos. Textual annotations are used not only to describe the visual content ...
In this paper, we present an approach to monitor human activities such as entry, exit and break times of people in a workplace environment. The companion robot then learns the use...
Amol A. Deshmukh, Mei Yii Lim, Michael Kriegel, Ru...
Social bookmark services like del.icio.us enable easy annotation for users to organize their resources. Collaborative tagging provides useful index for information retrieval. Howev...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...