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 …

Humans inevitably develop a sense of the relationships between objects, some of which are
based on their appearance. Some pairs of objects might be seen as being alternatives to …

Today's multimedia search engines are expected to respond to queries reflecting a wide
variety of information needs from users with different goals. The topical dimension (“what” …

From Flickr to Facebook to Pinterest, pictures are increasingly becoming a core content type
in social networks. But, how important is this visual content and how does it influence …

One of the fundamental problems in image search is to rank image documents according to
a given textual query. Existing search engines highly depend on surrounding texts for …

Implementations generally relate to ranking and selecting images for display from a set of
images. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes providing …

The problem of tagging is mostly considered from the perspectives of machine learning and
data-driven philosophy. A fundamental issue that underlies the success of these approaches …

Traditionally, recommender systems modelled the physical and cyber contextual influence
on people's moving, querying, and browsing behaviors in isolation. Yet, searching, querying …

Although Web search techniques have greatly facilitate users' information seeking, there are
still quite a lot of search sessions that cannot provide satisfactory results, which are more …

User interfaces for web image search engine results differ significantly from interfaces for
traditional (text) web search results, supporting a richer interaction. In particular, users can …