The Internet contains billions of images, freely available online. Methods for efficiently searching this incredibly rich resource are vital for a large number of applications. Th...
Image object retrieval – locating image occurrences of specific objects in large-scale image collections – is essential for manipulating the sheer amount of photos. Current s...
The number of personal multimedia objects, such as digital photographs and videos, are exploding on the web through popular sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook hosting bil...
Geographical context is very important for images. Millions of images on the Web have been already assigned latitude and longitude information. Due to the rapid proliferation of s...
Multimedia content presents special challenges for the search engines, and could benefit from semantic annotation of images. Unfortunately, manual labeling is too tedious and tim...
Chien-Ju Ho, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu