Starling: An I/O-Efficient Disk-Resident Graph Index Framework for High-Dimensional Vector Similarity Search on Data Segment

M Wang, W Xu, X Yi, S Wu, Z Peng, X Ke… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
High-dimensional vector similarity search (HVSS) is gaining prominence as a powerful tool
for various data science and AI applications. As vector data scales up, in-memory indexes …

Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with a Dynamic Exploration Graph using Continuous Refinement

N Hezel, KU Barthel, K Schall, K Jung - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10479, 2023 - arxiv.org
For approximate nearest neighbor search, graph-based algorithms have shown to offer the
best trade-off between accuracy and search time. We propose the Dynamic Exploration …

Digitally-assisted iconology: A method for the analysis of digital media

R Drainville - Studies in Communication Sciences, 2024 - hope.uzh.ch
Exploring medium-to-large datasets of social media imagery can be challenging. This paper
describes a digitally-assisted iconology, a hybrid methodology that includes machine …

Triple Alignment Strategies for Zero-shot Phrase Grounding under Weak Supervision

P Lin, R Li, Y Ji, Z Yu, F Feng, Z Ma… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Phrase Grounding, ie, PG aims to locate objects referred by noun phrases. Recently, PG
under weak supervision (ie, grounding without region-level annotations) and zero-shot PG …

Revisiting the Index Construction of Proximity Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search

S Yang, J Xie, Y Liu, JX Yu, X Gao, Q Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Proximity graphs (PG) have gained increasing popularity as the state-of-the-art (SOTA)
solutions to $ k $-approximate nearest neighbor ($ k $-ANN) search on high-dimensional …

PicArrange-visually sort, search, and explore private images on a mac computer

K Jung, KU Barthel, N Hezel, K Schall - International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
The native macOS application PicArrange integrates state-of-the-art image sorting and
similarity search to enable users to get a better overview of their images. Many file and …

An Exploration Graph with Continuous Refinement for Efficient Multimedia Retrieval

N Hezel, KU Barthel, K Schall, K Jung - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As datasets and the dimensionality of feature vectors continue to grow, Approximate Nearest
Neighbor Search (ANNS) in large multimedia databases becomes increasingly relevant …

Video search with sub-image keyword transfer using existing image archives

N Hezel, K Schall, K Jung, KU Barthel - … 22–24, 2021, Proceedings, Part II …, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents details of our frame-based Ad-hoc Video Search system with manually
assisted querying that will be used for the Video Browser Showdown 2021 (VBS2021). The …

[PDF][PDF] Let's Play War: Inside 4chan's intergroup rivalry, contingent community formation, and fandomized war reporting

PS Baun, M Schlüter, D Bach, M Tuters, Y Li, W Keye… - 2022 - researchgate.net
This project investigates two competing 4chan groups concerned with the war in Ukraine.
We follow the pro-Ukrainian (/uhg/) and the pro-Russian (/chug/) threads and their …

Towards a Survey on Visual Summarization of Image Sets/submitted by Richard Wolfmayr

R Wolfmayr - 2024 - epub.jku.at
Digital cameras and social media lead to an ever-increasing number of digital images.
Large collections can be overwhelming for users and difficult to comprehend. As in other …