The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...
We present a novel passage-based approach to re-ranking documents in an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. While most work on passage-based document...
It is necessary to provide a method to store Web information effectively so it can be utilised as a future knowledge resource. A commonly adopted approach is to classify the retri...
A fast and robust 3D retrieval method is proposed based on a novel weighted structural histogram representation. Our method has the following steps: 1) adaptively segment any 3D sh...
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important...
Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, Da...