Nearest Neighbor (NN) retrieval is a crucial tool of many computer vision tasks. Since the brute-force naive search is too time consuming for most applications, several tailored d...
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
In order to resolve multi-dimentional queries, we propose a conceptual indexing based on a medical meta thesaurus (UMLS). We study the impact of this indexing compared to a words-b...
This paper presents the MultiWaveMed system, which is a new software allowing to index and retrieve medical images through the comparison of their texture features. The features a...
This paper examines the problem of image retrieval from large, heterogeneous image databases. We present a technique that fulfills several needs identified by surveying recent res...