In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Effective usage of multimedia digital libraries has to deal with the problem of building efficient content annotation and retrieval tools. MOM (Multimedia Ontology Manager) is a ...
This paper regards images with captions as a cross-media parallel corpus, and presents a corpus-based relevance feedback approach to combine the results of visual and textual runs....
Large music collections require new ways to let users interact with their music. The concept of finding ‘similar’ songs, albums, or artists provides handles to users for easy ...
This paper describes the use of motif contour classes for efficient retrieval of melodies from music collections. Instead of extracting incipits or themes, complete monophonic pi...