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MM
2006
ACM
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16 years 11 days ago
Effective and efficient object-based image retrieval using visual phrases
In this paper, we draw an analogy between image retrieval and text retrieval and propose a visual phrase-based approach to retrieve images containing desired objects. The visual p...
Qing-Fang Zheng, Wei-Qiang Wang, Wen Gao
AVBPA
2005
Springer
460views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Fingerprint Quality Indices for Predicting Authentication Performance
The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fi...
Yi Chen, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
ICIAP
2001
Springer
16 years 6 months ago
A World Wide Web Region-Based Image Search Engine
In this paper the development of an intelligent image content-based search engine for the World Wide Web is presented. Information Web Crawlers continuously traverse the Internet ...
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Evangelia Triantafyllou, Mic...
ESWS
2007
Springer
16 years 17 days ago
User-Centric Faceted Search for Semantic Portals
Many semantic portals use faceted browsing, where the facets are based on the underlying indexing ontologies of the content. However, in many cases, like in medical applications, t...
Osma Suominen, Kim Viljanen, Eero Hyvönen
HICSS
1998
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
Managing Metadata for Distributed Information Servers
In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery s...
Nigel Hinds, Chinya V. Ravishankar