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ECCV
2008
Springer
16 years 8 months ago
Improving People Search Using Query Expansions
In this paper we are interested in finding images of people on the web, and more specifically within large databases of captioned news images. It has recently been shown that visua...
Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verbeek
ICDE
2005
IEEE
107views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
The Quality vs. Time Trade-off for Approximate Image Descriptor Search
In recent years, content-based image retrieval has become more and more important in many application areas. Similarity retrieval is inherently a very demanding process, in partic...
Rut Siguroardottir, Björn Þór J&...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
127views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient reverse k-nearest neighbor search in arbitrary metric spaces
The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) problem, i.e. finding all objects in a data set the k-nearest neighbors of which include a specified query object, is a generalization of the...
Elke Achtert, Christian Böhm, Peer Kröge...
CG
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
An evaluation of descriptors for large-scale image retrieval from sketched feature lines
We address the problem of fast, large scale sketch-based image retrieval, searching in a database of over one million images. We show that current retrieval methods do not scale w...
Mathias Eitz, Kristian Hildebrand, Tamy Boubekeur,...
CVPR
2011
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Face Image Retrieval by Shape Manipulation
Current face image retrieval methods achieve impressive results, but lack efficient ways to refine the search, particularly for geometric face attributes. Users cannot easily ...
Brandon Smith, Shengqi Zhu, Li Zhang