Learning collection fusion strategies
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SIGMOD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Networked information retrieval
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Querying multimedia data from multiple repositories by content: the Garlic project
Proceedings of the third IFIP WG2.6 working conference on Visual database systems 3 (VDB-3)
Efficient resource selection in distributed visual information systems
MULTIMEDIA '97 Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Multimedia
SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Query-based sampling of text databases
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Using sampled data and regression to merge search engine results
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SODA '03 Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies
VLDB '95 Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Scaling heterogeneous databases and the design of Disco
ICDCS '96 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '96)
Metadatabase and Search Agent for Multimedia Database Access over Internet
ICMCS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
A semisupervised learning method to merge search engine results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Joining ranked inputs in practice
VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
Texture Retrieval Effectiveness Improvement Using Multiple Representations Fusion
PSIVT '09 Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Rim Symposium on Advances in Image and Video Technology
Efficiently support concurrent queries in multiuser CBIR systems
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Information retrieval from visual databases using multiple representations and multiple queries
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
An approach based on multiple representations and multiple queries for invariant image retrieval
VISUAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Advances in visual information systems
An application of swarm intelligence to distributed image retrieval
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Source selection for image retrieval in peer-to-peer networks
FDIA'09 Proceedings of the Third BCS-IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
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Searching information through the Internet often requires users to separately contact several digital libraries, use each library interface to author the query, analyze retrieval results and merge them with results returned by other libraries. Such a solution could be simplified by using a centralized server that acts as a gateway between the user and several distributed repositories: The centralized server receives the user query, forwards the user query to federated repositories—possibly translating the query in the specific format required by each repository—and fuses retrieved documents for presentation to the user. To accomplish these tasks efficiently, the centralized server should perform some major operations such as: resource selection, query transformation and data fusion.In this paper we report on some aspects of MIND, a system for managing distributed, heterogeneous multimedia libraries (MIND, 2001, http://www.mind-project.org). In particular, this paper focusses on the issue of fusing results returned by different image repositories. The proposed approach is based on normalization of matching scores assigned to retrieved images by individual libraries. Experimental results on a prototype system show the potential of the proposed approach with respect to traditional solutions.