KMi Seminars
Comparing Dissimilarity Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval
This event took place on Monday 07 January 2008 at 13:30

 
Rui Hu KMi - The Open University

Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in content-based image retrieval, where data objects and queries are represented as vectors in high-dimensional content feature spaces. Given the large number of dissimilarity measures that exist, a crucial research question arises: Is there a dependency, if yes, what is the dependency, of a dissimilarity measure?s retrieval performance, on different feature spaces? In this report, we summarize fourteen core dissimilarity measures and classify them into three categories. A systematic performance comparison is carried out to test the e?ectiveness of these dissimilarity measures with six different feature spaces. Based on the experimental results, we recommend some dissimilarity measures for future use.

 
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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.