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BMVC
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Accounting for the Relative Importance of Objects in Image Retrieval
We introduce a method for image retrieval that leverages the implicit information about object importance conveyed by the list of keyword tags a person supplies for an image. We p...
Sung Ju Hwang, Kristen Grauman
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Towards Searchable Digital Urdu Libraries - A Word Spotting Based Retrieval Approach
—Libraries in South Asia hold huge collections of valuable printed documents in Urdu and it is of interest to digitize these collections to make them more accessible. The unavail...
Ali Abidi, Imran Siddiqi, Khurram Khurshid
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
The importance of manual assessment in link discovery
Using a ground truth extracted from the Wikipedia, and a ground truth created through manual assessment, we show that the apparent performance advantage seen in machine learning a...
Darren Wei Che Huang, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva
AIRS
2005
Springer
16 years 4 days ago
Finding New News: Novelty Detection in Broadcast News
The automatic detection of novelty, or newness, as part of an information retrieval system would greatly improve a searcher’s experience by presenting “documents” in order of...
Georgina Gaughan, Alan F. Smeaton
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Precision-at-ten considered redundant
Information retrieval systems are compared using evaluation metrics, with researchers commonly reporting results for simple metrics such as precision-at-10 or reciprocal rank toge...
William Webber, Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel, Tet...