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...
Searching for the meaning of the word “personalization” on a popular search engine, one finds twenty-three different answers, including “the process of matching categorized...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...
Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogen...
Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff, Pierre-Yves Ch...