Hash Ranking With Weighted Asymmetric Distance for Image Search

A Method for Defuzzication by Weighted Distance

Social Image Search with Diverse Relevance Ranking

Recent years have witnessed the success of many online social media websites, which allow users to create and share media information as well as describe the media content with tags. However, the existing ranking approaches for tag-based image search frequently return results that are irrelevant or lack of diversity. This paper proposes a diverse relevance ranking scheme which is able to simult...

Map Route Ranking with Weighted Distance using Environmental Factors

When users search for the routes between two places using map based services, these services compute and provide the top candidate routes based on shortest geometric distances or ideal time consuming. However, other real factors like physical exertion and practical time consuming will influence user experience, and the environmental factors like steep slope and traffic jam that result in these ...

Stipulated Ranking Technique for Image Search Engines

The social media sites, such as Flickr and del.icio.us, allow users to upload content and annotate it with descriptive labels known as tags, join special-interest groups, etc. We believe user-generated metadata expresses user’s tastes and interests and can be used to personalize information to an individual user. Specifically, we describe a machine learning method that analyzes a corpus of tagg...

User Adaptive Image Ranking for Search Engines

In the past few years, user adaptive information retrieval has received increased attention. Most of the work has focused on eliciting user’s preferences using query histories, demographics and click-through rates. Although such approaches might improve the search results in some cases, they do not address the full problem. Moreover, users might change their goals rapidly and therefore cause re...