For effective retrieval of visual information, statistical learning plays a pivotal role. Statistical learning in such a context faces at least two major mathematical challenges: ...
Automatic capture technology could enable students to record and index much information—both digital and nondigital—with little extra effort. Can this technology be designed t...
The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest to users. An agent works as a dele...
Collaborative filtering aims at learning predictive models of user preferences, interests or behavior from community data, i.e. a database of available user preferences. In this ...
In this paper, an interactive image retrieval scheme using MPEG-7 visual descriptors is proposed. The performance of image retrieval systems is still limited due to semantic gap, w...