Search disambiguation techniques in multimedia collections

• Main Author: Wan, Kong Wah
• Other Authors: Tan Ah Hwee
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Document and text processing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/50768
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosive growth in multimedia content. Online repositories such as Flickr (image) and YouTube (video) contain hundreds of millions of images and videos and are still growing by the day. However, the utility of these data sources is only as good as their a...