In this paper we propose a novel method for demographic classification and present an image retrieval system that can retrieve facial images by demographic information that includ...
Abstract. This paper presents a task-based user evaluation of two contentbased image database browsing systems. The performance of the two systems is compared to that of a commerci...
Timo Ojala, Markus Koskela, Esa Matinmikko, Mika R...
Several caching techniques have been used to reduce the bandwidth consumption and to provide faster answers in P2P systems. In this paper, we address the problem of reducing unnec...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...