Literature

Papers discussed in the seminar

Philbin, J. , Chum, O. , Isard, M. , Sivic, J. and Zisserman, A. Object retrieval with large vocabularies and fast spatial matching. CVPR 2007.
Chum, O. , Philbin, J. , Sivic, J. , Isard, M. and Zisserman, A. Total Recall: Automatic Query Expansion with a Generative Feature Model for Object Retrieval. ICCV 2007.
Chum, O. and Matas. J.: Web Scale Image Clustering, Technical Report. 05/2008.

Nister, D. and Stewenius, H. Scalable recognition with a vocabulary tree. CVPR 2006. (on the importance of large vocabularies; see also [1]).
Sivic, J. and Zisserman, A. Video Google: Efficient Visual Search of Videos. ICCV 2003. (very good overview of textual search methods applied to image search; see also [2]).
Chum, O. , Philbin, J. , Isard, M. and Zisserman, A. Scalable Near Identical Image and Shot Detection. ICIVR 2007. (good explanation of the min-Hash algorithm).
Philbin, J. , Chum, O. , Isard, M. , Sivic, J. and Zisserman, A. Lost in Quantization: Improving Particular Object Retrieval in Large Scale Image Databases. CVPR 2008. (Improves on earlier results by using "soft" word assignment.)