: In the last decade, many evaluation results have been created within the evaluation initiatives like TREC, NTCIR and CLEF. The large amount of data available has led to substanti...
In this paper, we explore the problem of processing a novel type of location based queries, named the location based top-k query, which involves both of spatial and non-spatial sp...
HaRim Jung, Byung Ku Cho, Yon Dohn Chung, Ling Liu
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...
Matching regular expressions (regexps) is a very common workload. For example, tokenization, which consists of recognizing words or keywords in a character stream, appears in ever...
Web image search is inspired by text search techniques; it mainly relies on indexing textual data that surround the image file. But retrieval results are often noisy and image pro...