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Iterative Relevance Feedback with Adaptive Exploration/Exploitation Trade-off

François Fleuret, Nicolae Suditu

Content-based image retrieval systems have to cope with two different regimes: understanding broadly the categories of interest to the user, and refining the search in this or these categories to converge to specific images among them. Here, in contrast wi ...

2012

Retrieval of occluded images using DCT phase and region merging

Pierre-André Farine, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Pradyumna Ayyalasomayajula

In this paper we present an efficient method for Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) of occluded images using DCT-phase. The proposed method utilizes a novel correlation metric for ternary-valued DCT-phase, as well as a region merging method to reconstruc ...

IEEE2012

Spam Fighting in Social Tagging Systems

Touradj Ebrahimi, Sasan Yazdani, Ivan Ivanov

Tagging in online social networks is very popular these days, as it facilitates search and retrieval of diverse resources available online. However, noisy and spam annotations often make it difficult to perform an efficient search. Users may make mistakes ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Method of data retrieval, and search engine using such a method

Saket Sathe, Gleb Skobeltsyn

A method of data retrieval from a data repository in response to a query having either list of keywords and/or list of attribute-value pairs, the method comprising the steps of: providing an inverted index generated from the data repository, the inverted i ...

2011

Peer-to-Peer Data Management

Karl Aberer

This lecture introduces systematically into the problem of managing large data collections in peer-to-peer systems. Search over large datasets has always been a key problem in peer-to-peer systems and the peer-to-peer paradigm has incited novel directions ...

Morgan & Claypool Publishers2011

Affective content analysis of music video clip

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Krista Kappeler

Nowadays, the amount of multimedia contents is explosively increasing and it is often a challenging problem to find a con- tent that will be appealing or matches users’ current mood or affective state. In order to achieve this goal, an efficient indexing t ...

ACM2011

By their apps you shall understand them: mining large-scale patterns of mobile phone usage

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Mobile phones are becoming more and more widely used nowadays, and people do not use the phone only for communication: there is a wide variety of phone applications allowing users to select those that fit their needs. Aggregated over time, application usag ...

2010

Fisher Kernels and Probabilistic Latent Semantic Models

Emmanuel Eckard

Tasks that rely on semantic content of documents, notably Information Retrieval and Document Classification, can benefit from a good account of document context, i.e. the semantic association between documents. To this effect, the scheme of latent semantic ...

EPFL2010

Role of thesauri in a scientific organisation

Dario Rodighiero

We aim to describe the mediation language between users and indexers in a document retrieval system for a big scientific community intimately related to European Union policies. We assume that this mediation is played by thesauri: sets of indexes apparentl ...

BrownWalker Press2009

Answering questions about archived, annotated meetings

Marita Ailomaa

Retrieving information from archived meetings is a new domain of information retrieval that has received increasing attention in the past few years. Search in spontaneous spoken conversations has been recognized as more difficult than text-based document r ...

EPFL2009