Currently, popular search engines retrieve documents on the basis of text information.
However, integrating the visual information with the text-based search for video and image …

Searching for relevant webpages and following hyperlinks to related content is a widely
accepted and effective approach to information seeking on the textual web. Existing work on …

Although linking video to additional information sources seems to be a sensible approach to
satisfy information needs of user, the perspective of users is not yet analyzed on a …

Recent years have seen significant efforts in the area of Cross Language Information
Retrieval (CLIR) for text retrieval. This work initially focused on formally published content …

We compare the effect of different text segmentation strategies on speech based passage
retrieval of video. Passage retrieval has mainly been studied to improve document retrieval …

The high-variability in content and structure combined with transcription errors makes
effective information retrieval (IR) from archives of spoken user generated content (UGC) …

This paper deals with Information Retrieval from audio-visual recordings. Such recordings
are often quite long and users may want to find the exact starting points of relevant passages …

This demo showcases the utility of video hyperlinks with celebrities as the link anchors and
their social circles as targets, aiming to help users quickly explore the aboutness of a …

The very rapid growth in user-generated social multimedia content on online platforms is
creating new challenges for search technologies. A significant issue for search of this type of …

The paper describes the Charles University setup used in the Search and Hyperlinking task
of the MediaEval 2012 Multimedia Benchmark. We applied the Terrier retrieval system to the …