Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
One of the most challenging issues in managing the large and diverse data available on the World Wide Web is the design of interactive systems to organize and represent information...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
: Modeling the characteristics of specific images and individual users is a critical issue in content-based image retrieval but insufficiently addressed by the current retrieval ap...
An overview of generative sound models is presented. We discuss the benefits they offer in a variety of media contexts including indexing and retrieval, compression, sonification,...