In this paper, the automatic medical annotation task of the 2007 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF) is described. The paper focusses on the images used, the ...
Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Henning M...
A visual search is required when applying a recognition process on a scene containing multiple objects. In such cases, we would like to avoid an exhaustive sequential search. This...
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...
Spectral clustering and eigenvector-based methods have become increasingly popular in segmentation and recognition. Although the choice of the pairwise similarity metric (or affin...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...