Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

Multi-media Indexing and Retrieval (MIR)

Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Bibliography

Our Approach People in the group Papers (.gz postscript files)

The following documents are all compressed (.gz) postscript files available for downloading. The technical reports have abstracts available for browsing at the UMass Computer Science Technical Report Server. The compressed file sizes are mentioned. The uncompressed files will be much larger.
MM-1: (1995) R. Manmatha, "A Framework for Recovering Affine Transforms Using Points, Lines or Image Brightnesses," Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, CVPR'96, Seattle, WA, June 21-23, 1994, pp. 141-146. size - 103 KB.

MM-2: (1995) R. Manmatha, Chengfeng Han, E.M. Riseman and W.B. Croft, "Indexing Handwriting Using Word Matching" in Proc. of First ACM Intl. Conference on Digital Libraries, DL '96, Bethesda, MD, March 1996, pages 151-159. UMass Technical Report TR95-89. size - 484 KB.

MM-3: (1995) Victor Wu and R. Manmatha, Extracting Text From Greyscale Images," UMass Technical Report TR95-88.

MM-4: (1995) R. Manmatha, C. Han and E. M. Riseman,"Word Spotting: A New Approach to Indexing Handwriting," Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, CVPR'96, San Francisco, CA, June 1996, pages 631--637. size - 315 KB. Longer version available as UMass Technical Report, TR95-105. size - 581 KB.

MM-5: (1995) S. Ravela, R. Manmatha and E. M. Riseman,"Retrieval from Image Databases Using Scale Space Matching," UMass Technical Report, TR95-104. size - 1.6MB

MM-6: (1996) R. Manmatha and W. B. Croft,"Word Spotting: Indexing Handwritten Manuscripts" book chapter in "Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval ", ed. Mark Maybury, AAAI Press, May 1997. size - 180 KB (This file was generated using Microsoft Word and you may have trouble downloading this document. It is recommended that you download the file, uncompress it and then print it on a Level II postscript printer; trying to display it may cause problems).

MM-7: (1996) S. Ravela, R. Manmatha and E. M. Riseman, "Scale Space Matching and Image Retrieval," in Proceedings of the ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, 1996. size - 328 KB

MM-8: (1996) S. Ravela, R. Manmatha and E. M. Riseman, "Image Retrieval Using Scale Space Matching" in Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV '96, Cambridge, U.K., April 1996, pages 273--282,Springer. size - 330 KB.

MM-9: (1996) M. Das, B. Draper, W. Lim, R. Manmatha and E. M. Riseman, " A Fast Background Independent Retrieval Strategy for Color Image Databases." Umass Technical Report, TR96-79. some color images.

MM-10: (1997) R. Manmatha and S. Ravela, "A Syntactic Characterization of Appearance and its Application to Image Retrieval" in Proc. of the SPIE conf. on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging II, Vol, 3016, San Jose, CA, February 1997. size - 550 KB.

MM-11: (1997) : S. Ravela and R. Manmatha, " Image Retrieval by Appearance" In the Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'97), Philadelphia, PA, July 27-31, 1997. size - 590 KB.

:MM-12 (1997) R. Manmatha and H. Sawhney,"Finding Symmetry in Intensity Images" Forthcoming UMass Technical Report. . size - 268 KB

MM-13: (1997): Victor Wu, R. Manmatha and E. M. Riseman, " Finding Text in Images" In the Proc. of the 2nd ACM Intl conf. on Digital Libraries (DL'97), July 1997. size - 1.74 MB ,

MM-14: (1997): M. Das, E. M. Riseman and B. Draper, " FOCUS: Searching for Multi-colored Objects in a Diverse Image Database " in the Proc. of IEEE CVPR '97, June '97,pages 756-761. , size - 709 KB, some color images.

MM-15: (1997): R. Manmatha, " Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Research at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval " In the Proc. of the Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology 1997 (SDIUT'97) ,1.70 MB

MM-16: (1997): S. Ravela and R. Manmatha, " Retrieving Images by Similarity of Visual Appearance" In the Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Content Based Access of Image Databases , Puerto Rico, June 20, 1997.

MM-17: (1998): S. Ravela and R. Manmatha, " Retrieving Images by Appearance" To appear in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conf. on Computer Vision , (ICCV'98) Bombay, Jan, 1998.

MM-18: (1998): V. Wu, R. Manmatha and E. M. Riseman, " TextFinder: An Automatic System to Detect and Recognize Text in Images" Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, also CIIR technical report ,

MM-19: (1998): Wu, V. and Manmatha. R., " Document Image Clean-up and Binarization" in the Proceedings of SPIE conf. on Document Recognition V, San Jose, California, January 24 - 30, 1998.,

MM-20: (1998): Manmatha. R., Ravela, S. and Chitti Y., " On Computing Local and Global Similarity in Images" in the Proceedings of SPIE conf. on Human and Electronic Imaging III, San Jose, California, January 24 - 30, 1998.,

MM-21: (1998): Ravela, S. and Manmatha. R., " On Computing Global Similarity in Images" Accepted to the 4th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'98), Princeton, NJ, Oct., 1998.,

MM-22: (1998): Das, M., Manmatha. R. and Riseman, E. M.  " Indexing Flowers by Color Names using Domain Knowledge-driven Segmentation" Accepted to the 4th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'98), Princeton, NJ, Oct., 1998.,

MM-23: (1998): Ravela, S. and Manmatha. R., " Gaussian Filtered Representations of Images; submitted to the Encyclopaedia on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Webster ed., John Wiley.,

MM-24: (1998): Das, M. and Liou, S.,  " New Hybrid Approach to Video Organization for Content Based Indexing." ,

Return to CIIR bibliography.
Return to the Multi-media Indexing and Retrieval Group homepage.
Back to MIR Main Page