Major events in multimedia information retrieval

Multimedia Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval (IR) is an active research area for many years. Initially, the field focused on the efficient and effective processing of user information needs expressed as a set of keywords. In fact, this model is still active today (e.g., web search engines). However, large volumes of information are available in non-textual form, such as images, audio files and videos. The research fi...

Multimedia information retrieval

Information Fusion in Multimedia Information Retrieval

In retrieval, indexing and classification of multimedia data an efficient information fusion of the different modalities is essential for the system’s overall performance. Since information fusion, its influence factors and performance improvement boundaries have been lively discussed in the last years in different research communities, we will review their latest findings. They most importantl...

Events based Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval

Event recognition is one of multimedia applications that has been gaining ground recently. However, it has received scarce attention relatively to other applications. The methodologies presented hereby are aimed at event-based analysis of multimedia content, which is achieved from three perspectives, namely (i) event recognition in single images, (ii) event recognition in personal photo collect...

Cross-Language Multimedia Information Retrieval

Cross-Language Multimedia Information Retrieval Sharon Flank emotion, Inc. 2600 Park Tower Dr., Vienna, VA 22180 USA [email protected] Simple measures can achieve high-accuracy cross-language retrieval in carefully chosen applications. Image retrieval is one of those applications, with results ranging from 68% of human translator performance for German, to 100% for French.