Inferring user image-search goals under the implicit guidance of users

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 394-406

  Lu, Zheng ^a   Yang, Xiaokang ^a   Lin, Weiyao ^a   Zha, Hongyuan ^b   Chen, Xiaolin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Click through logs; goal images; image search goals; semi supervised clustering; spectral clustering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

CLICK-THROUGH LOGS; GOAL IMAGES; IMAGE-SEARCH GOALS; SEMI-SUPERVISED CLUSTERING; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84896519232     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2255418     Document Type: Article

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