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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Find-similar: similarity browsing as a search tool
Search systems have for some time provided users with the ability to request documents similar to a given document. Interfaces provide this feature via a link or button for each d...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Statistical precision of information retrieval evaluation
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
Gordon V. Cormack, Thomas R. Lynam
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Precision-Oriented Active Selection for Interactive Image Retrieval
Active learning methods have been considered with an increased interest in the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) community. Those methods used to be based on classical classifi...
Philippe Henri Gosselin, Matthieu Cord
ICIP
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Cross-domain learning methods for high-level visual concept classification
Exploding amounts of multimedia data increasingly require automatic indexing and classification, e.g. training classifiers to produce high-level features, or semantic concepts, ch...
Wei Jiang, Eric Zavesky, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander ...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Kernel Sharing With Joint Boosting For Multi-Class Concept Detection
Object/scene detection by discriminative kernel-based classification has gained great interest due to its promising performance and flexibility. In this paper, unlike traditional ...
Wei Jiang, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander C. Loui