This work is motivated by the need for visual information extraction and management in the growing field of content based image retrieval from medical archives. In particular it f...
We present a novel data-driven algorithm that leverages online image repositories such as Flickr for automatically generating tourist maps. Our hypothesis is that, given a large e...
In this paper, we develop a theoretical understanding of multi-sensory knowledge and user context and their interrelationships. This is used to develop a generic representation fr...
We introduce NPIC, an image classification system that focuses on synthetic (e.g., non-photographic) images. We use class-specific keywords in an image search engine to create a no...
Although tagging has become increasingly popular in online image and video sharing systems, tags are known to be noisy, ambiguous, incomplete and subjective. These factors can ser...