Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
We present a method being developed to extract information about characters’ emotions in films. It is suggested that this information can help describe higher levels of multimed...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Many applications in structure matching require the ability to search for graphs that are similar to a query graph, i.e., similarity graph queries. Prior works, especially in chem...