Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Recent empirical work has shown that combining predictors can lead to significant reduction in generalization error. The individual predictors (weak learners) can be very simple, ...
A paired comparison psychophysical experiment was performed to evaluate the quality of several imaging techniques. Images rendered for an LCD were compared with two- and three-dim...
Ellen A. Day, Roy S. Berns, Lawrence A. Taplin, Fr...
Delivering digitally a realistic appearance of materials is one of the most difficult tasks of computer vision. Accurate representation of surface texture can be obtained by means ...
This paper describes our participation in the 2008 TREC Blog track. Our system consists of 3 components: data preprocessing, topic retrieval, and opinion finding. In the topic ret...