Learning semantics from annotated images to enhance content-based retrieval is an important research direction. In this paper, annotation data are assumed available for only a sub...
It is difficult to obtain a specific region within unsegmented volume data (region of interest, ROI). The user must first segment the volume, a task which itself involves signi...
We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
It is relatively common for different people or organizations to share the same name. Given the increasing amount of information available online, this results in the ever growing...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...