Large archives of Ottoman documents are challenging to many historians all over the world. However, these archives remain inaccessible since manual transcription of such a huge vo...
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...
This paper presents a new wavelet based retrieval approach based on Spherically Invariant Random Vector (SIRV) modeling of wavelet subbands. Under this multivariate model, wavelet...
In this paper, we propose a new rotation-invariant image retrieval system based on steerable pyramids and the concept of angular alignment across scales. First, we define energy-b...
This paper describes our participation in the Medical Image Retrieval task of Image CLEF 2008. Our aim was to evaluate different combination methods for purely textual and visual ...