With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

The relative ineffectiveness of information retrieval systems is largely caused by the
inaccuracy with which a query formed by a few keywords models the actual user information …

Social image analysis and retrieval is important for hel** people organize and access the
increasing amount of user tagged multimedia. Since user tagging is known to be …

In this paper, we review 300 references on video retrieval, indicating when text-only
solutions are unsatisfactory and showing the promising alternatives which are in majority …

With the explosive growth of web videos on the Internet, it becomes challenging to efficiently
browse hundreds or even thousands of videos. When searching an event query, users are …

The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of community-contributed media content
on the Internet have led to a surge of research activity in multimedia search. Approaches that …

Query expansion (QE) is a well-known technique used to enhance the effectiveness of
information retrieval. QE reformulates the initial query by adding similar terms that help in …

Micro-videos have rapidly become one of the most dominant trends in the era of social
media. Accordingly, how to organize them draws our attention. Distinct from the traditional …

Image-based semantic distance technique embodiments are presented that involve
establishing a measure of an image based semantic distance between semantic concepts …

Conversational image search, a revolutionary search mode, is able to interactively induce
the user response to clarify their intents step by step. Several efforts have been dedicated to …