Content-based image retrieval is a very dynamic study field, and in this field, how to improve retrieval speed and retrieval accuracy is a hot issue. The retrieval performance can be improved when applying relevance feedback to image retrieval and introducing the participation of people to the retrieval process. However, as for many existing image retrieval methods, there are disadvantages of r...

Mobile pedestrian wayfinding service is one of the most popular Location Based Services. In the era of Web 2.0, current mobile wayfinding services usually suffer from the following problems: the lack of social navigation support (utilizing other people‟s experiences), and the challenge of making user-generated content useful. This paper designs a collaborative filtering based route recommendati...

Personalisation can have a significant impact on the way information is disseminated on the web today. Information Filtering can be a significant ingredient towards a personalised web. Collaborative Filtering is already being applied successfully for generating personalised recommendations of music tracks, books, movies and more. The same is not true for Content-Based Filtering. In this paper, ...

Different authors have proposed combining content-based and collaborative attributes in a single table. In this article, we try out a different approach. We propose not to merge the two tables, but to join them as if they were tables in a relational database. As a result, we get several new application cases and a system architecture that supports the formulation of universal queries.

Traditional content-based filtering methods usually utilize text extraction and classification techniques for building user profiles as well as for representations of contents, i.e. item profiles. These methods have some disadvantages e.g. mismatch between user profile terms and item profile terms, leading to low performance. Some of the disadvantages can be overcome by incorporating a common o...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular recommendation techniques. It is based on the assumption that users with similar tastes prefer similar items. One of the major drawbacks of the CF is its limited scalability, as the complexity of the CF grows linearly both with the number of available users and items. This work proposes a new fast variant of the CF employed over multi-dime...

As more people start using the Internet and more content is placed online, the chances that individuals will encounter inappropriate or unwanted adult-oriented content increases. This paper presents a practical and scalable method to efficiently detect many adult-content images, specifically pornographic images. We currently use this system in a search engine that covers a large fraction of the...

Collaborative filtering and content-based filtering are two main approaches to make recommendations in recommender systems. While each approach has its own strengths and weaknesses, combining the two approaches can improve recommendation accuracy. In this paper, we present a graph-based method that allows combining content information and rating information in a natural way. The proposed method...