This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
We introduce GaZIR, a gaze-based interface for browsing and searching for images. The system computes on-line predictions of relevance of images based on implicit feedback, and wh...
In this paper, we present a knowledge-assisted approach to index and retrieve large volume of medical images. Both images and associated texts are indexed using medical concepts f...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
This paper studies the effect of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) on two different tasks: multimedia document retrieval (MDR) and automatic image annotation (AIA). The contributio...
Trong-Ton Pham, Nicolas Maillot, Joo-Hwee Lim, Jea...