The field of information retrieval still strives to develop models which allow semantic information to be integrated in the ranking process to improve performance in comparison to...
We describe an approach for multi-modal characterization of social media by combining text features (e.g. tags as a prominent example of short, unstructured text labels) with spat...
Fingerprint indexing is an efficient technique that greatly improves the performance of fingerprint based person authentication systems by reducing the number of comparison. In th...
— A novel framework to context modeling, based on the probability of co-occurrence of objects and scenes is proposed. The modeling is quite simple, and builds upon the availabili...
In this paper, we investigate how an unlabeled image corpus can facilitate the segmentation of any given image. A simple yet efficient multi-task joint sparse representation model...