I'm working on improving large-scale image based search engines by looking at the way users interact with them, extracting useful information from images without the need for a user and improving the overall user experience.

Rae, A. and Zwol, B. (2010) Improving Tag Recommendation Using Social Networks, 9th international conference on Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information - RIAO, Paris, France

Llorente, A., Overell, S., Liu, H., Hu, R., Rae, A., Zhu, J., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2008) Exploiting Term Co-occurrence for Enhancing Automated Image Annotation, Proceedings of the 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2008), LNCS 5706, pp. 632--639, Springer

Overell, S., Llorente, A., Liu, H., Hu, R., Rae, A., Zhu, J., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2008) MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments combining Different Evidence Sources, Working notes for the CLEF 2008 Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark

Overell, S., Rae, A. and Rueger, S. (2008) Geographic and textual data fusion in Forostar, 9th Cross-language evaluation forum conference on Evaluating systems for multilingual and multimodal information access, LNCS 5706, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 838-842, Springer

Overell, S., Llorente, A., Liu, H., Hu, R., Rae, A., Zhu, J., Song, D. and Rüger, S. (2008) MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: experiments combining different evidence sources, CLEF workshop, Aarhus, Denmark

Rueger, S. and Rae, A. (2008) A picture is worth a thousand words, Inside Knowledge, 11, 8, pp. 29-31, Wilmington Publishing & Information Ltd