Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...
Mobile vision services have recently been proposed for the support of urban nomadic users. A major issue for the performance of the service - involving indexing into a huge amount...
Katrin Amlacher, Patrick Morris Luley, Gerald Frit...
In information retrieval, sub-space techniques are usually used to reveal the latent semantic structure of a data-set by projecting it to a low dimensional space. Non-negative mat...
The object identifier index of an object-oriented database system is typically 20% of the size of the database itself, and for large databases, only a small part of the index fits...
In this paper, we describe an approach for mining images of objects (such as touristic sights) from community photo collections in an unsupervised fashion. Our approach relies on ...