Since the dawn of Humanity, to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas, visualization
through visual imagery has been an effective way. With the advancement of scientific …

Multi-feature fusion has achieved gratifying performance in image retrieval. However, some
existing fusion mechanisms would unfortunately make the result worse than expected due to …

Cross-modal hashing aims at using modality content to retrieve semantically relevant
objects of different modalities, so cross-modal retrieval has attracted much attention. To …

Although studied for decades, constructing effective image retrieval remains an open
problem in a wide range of relevant applications. Impressive advances have been made to …

Impressive advances in acquisition and sharing technologies have made the growth of
multimedia collections and their applications almost unlimited. However, the opposite is true …

Person Re-ID has been gaining a lot of attention and nowadays is of fundamental
importance in many camera surveillance applications. The task consists of identifying …

With the emergence of smartphones, video surveillance cameras, social networks, and
multimedia engines, as well as the development of the internet and connected objects (the …

Search-by-example, ie finding images that are similar to a query image, is an indispensable
function for various modern image search engines. The applications of such systems are …

Image and multimedia retrieval has established as a prominent task in an increasingly
digital and visual world. Mainly supported by decades of development on hand-crafted …

The revolutionary advances in image representation have led to impressive progress in
many image understanding-related tasks, primarily supported by Convolutional Neural …