Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Audio search plays an important role in analyzing audio data and retrieving useful audio information. In this paper, a Partially Overlapping Block-Parallel Active Search method (P...
In this article we present an infrastructure for creating mash up visual representations of the user profile that combines data from different sources. We explored this approach ...
Traditional image retrieval techniques search for images without considering the query context. When they are applied to applications like annotating text with images, the results...
A number of researchers have been building high-level semantic concept detectors such as outdoors, face, building, etc., to help with semantic video retrieval. Using the TRECVID v...