In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
This paper describes a novel methodology for implementing video search functions such as retrieval of near-duplicate videos and recognition of actions in surveillance video. Video...
Content-based image retrieval systems still have difficulties to bridge the semantic gap between the low-level representation of images and the high level concepts the user is loo...
This paper presents a novel platform for image retrieval based on a two-level architecture inspired from human cognitive mechanisms. These two levels provide both generic similari...
John Moustakas, Kostas Marias, Socrates Dimitriadi...
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...