Image search—from thousands to billions in 20 years

L Zhang, Y Rui - ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
This article presents a comprehensive review and analysis on image search in the past 20
years, emphasizing the challenges and opportunities brought by the astonishing increase of …

Annosearch: Image auto-annotation by search

XJ Wang, L Zhang, F Jing… - 2006 IEEE Computer …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although it has been studied for several years by computer vision and machine learning
communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we present …

Annotating images by mining image search results

XJ Wang, L Zhang, X Li, WY Ma - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel attempt of model-free image annotation which annotates
images by mining their search results. It contains three steps: 1) the search process to …

Dual cross-media relevance model for image annotation

J Liu, B Wang, M Li, Z Li, W Ma, H Lu… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potential
impact on both image understanding and web image retrieval. Existing relevance-model …

Multimodal representation, indexing, automated annotation and retrieval of image collections via non-negative matrix factorization

JC Caicedo, J BenAbdallah, FA González, O Nasraoui - Neurocomputing, 2012 - Elsevier
Massive image collections are increasingly available on the Web. These collections often
incorporate complementary non-visual data such as text descriptions, comments, user …

Here and now: Reality-based information retrieval: Perspective paper

W Büschel, A Mitschick, R Dachselt - … of the 2018 Conference on Human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Today, the widespread use of mobile devices allows users to search information" on the
go»», whenever and wherever they want, no longer confining Information Retrieval to …

Photo-based question answering

T Yeh, JJ Lee, T Darrell - Proceedings of the 16th ACM international …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Photo-based question answering is a useful way of finding information about physical
objects. Current question answering (QA) systems are text-based and can be difficult to use …

A comparative study of mobile-based landmark recognition techniques

KH Yap, T Chen, Z Li, K Wu - IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile-based landmark recognition is becoming increasingly appealing due to the
proliferation of mobile devices coupled with improving processing techniques, imaging …

Method and system for sharing image content based on collection proximity

HB Svendsen - US Patent 8,630,494, 2014 - Google Patents
Systems, methods, and computer readable medium are described for performing an action
based on determining that the contents of a first image collection and a second image …

Text region extraction from low resolution natural scene images using texture features

SA Angadi, MM Kodabagi - 2010 IEEE 2nd International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated systems for understanding display boards are finding many applications useful in
guiding tourists, assisting visually challenged and also in providing location aware …