Conventional search engines, such as Bing, Baidu, and Google, offer a convenient way for
users to seek information on the web. However, with all the benefits they provide, one major …

Nowadays, exponential growth in online production and extensive perceptual power of
visual contents (ie, images) complicate the users' information needs. The research has …

The recent advancements in the web allow users to generate multimedia content, resulting
in multimedia information proliferation. Existing search engines provide access to …

The proliferation of multimedia content is transforming users' information needs from simple
lookup-based information retrieval to more complex exploratory and discovery searches …

The existing image search engines allow web users to explore images from the grids. The
traditional interaction is linear and lookup-based. Notably, scanning web search results is …

Nowadays, the growth of multimedia content over the web is exponential. The fingerprints
are inconspicuously embedded in multimedia content. The fingerprints can be exploited to …

Nowadays, the web has emerged as an enormous multimedia data resource. Social media
platforms are becoming the mass producers of user-generated multimedia content. Web …

In the contemporary digital landscape, web search functions as a pivotal conduit for
information dissemination. Nevertheless, blind users (BUs) encounter substantial barriers in …

Users' web information needs are increasingly exploratory, seeking to navigate unfamiliar
domains and discover knowledge. However, existing search engines struggle with …

Due to its power in modeling complex relations between entities, graph theory has been
widely used in dealing with real-world problems. On the other hand, information retrieval has …