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 …

We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval
as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also …

The lack of annotated publicly available medical images is a major barrier for computational
research and education innovations. At the same time, many de-identified images and much …

In web-based education and learning, the constant growth of the Internet has thrown up
inconceivable opportunities and problems. Web 3.0, the most recent version of the web, is …

Content‐based image retrieval (CBIR) systems require users to query images by their low‐
level visual content; this not only makes it hard for users to formulate queries, but also can …

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help
us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become …

High cohesion is a desirable property of software as it positively impacts understanding,
reuse, and maintenance. Currently proposed measures for cohesion in Object-Oriented …

This paper presents a comparative study of color and texture descriptors considering the
Web as the environment of use. We take into account the diversity and large-scale aspects …

Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB) eliminates the need for an end user to use
complex query languages like SQL by translating the input natural language statements to …

The increasing availability of music in digital format needs to be matched by the
development of tools for music accessing, filtering, classification, and retrieval. The research …