Content-based image retrieval with relevant feedback has been widely adopted as the query model of choice for improved effectiveness in image retrieval. The effectiveness of thi...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...
We consider the problem of extracting features for multi-class recognition problems. The features are required to make fine distinction between similar classes, combined with tole...