Ontology-Based Retrieval and Annotation -- A Method for Processing the Natural Language Query in Ontology-Based Image Retrieval System -- SAFIRE: Towards Standardized Semantic Rich Image Annotation -- Ontology-Supported Video Modeling and Retrieval -- Ranking and Similarity Measurements -- Learning to Retrieve Images from Text Queries with a Discriminative Model -- A General Principled Method for Image Similarity Validation -- Rank-Test Similarity Measure Between Video Segments for Local Descriptors -- Music Information Retrieval -- Can Humans Benefit from Music Information Retrieval? -- Visual Modelling -- A New Approach to Probabilistic Image Modeling with Multidimensional Hidden Markov Models -- 3D Face Recognition by Modeling the Arrangement of Concave and Convex Regions -- Fuzzy Semantic Action and Color Characterization of Animation Movies in the Video Indexing Task Context -- Retrieval of Document Images Based on Page Layout Similarity -- Adaptive Retrieval -- Multimedia Content Adaptation Within the CAIN Framework Via Constraints Satisfaction and Optimization -- Aspects of Adaptivity in P2P Information Retrieval -- Interactive Museum Guide: Accurate Retrieval of Object Descriptions -- Structuring Multimedia -- Semantic Image Retrieval Using Region-Based Relevance Feedback -- Image Retrieval with Segmentation-Based Query -- Fast Structuring of Large Television Streams Using Program Guides -- User Integration and Profiling -- Variation of Relevance Assessments for Medical Image Retrieval -- An Efficient Collaborative Information Retrieval System by Incorporating the User Profile -- The Potential of User Feedback Through the Iterative Refining of Queries in an Image Retrieval System
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