Michael Ortega

Abstract Supporting Similarity Queries in MARS (2008)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas S. Huang

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in our group at the...

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND VIDEO TECHNOLOGY 1 Relevance Feedback: A Power Tool for Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval (2008)

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, Michael Ortega, Sharad Mehrotra

Abstract | Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built....

Associate Editors (2008)

Kaushik Chakrabarti, Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, ...

The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering is published quarterly and is distributed to all TC members. Its scope includes the design, implementation, modelling, theory and...

Abstract (2007)

Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Michael Ortega, Sharad Mehrotra

In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes/features without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result is typically a ranked list of “top k...

Announcements and Notices (2007)

Kaushik Chakrabarti, Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, ...

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A Six Degree-of-Freedom God-Object Method for Haptic Display of Rigid Bodies with Surface Properties (2007)

Ortega, Michael, Redon, Stephane, Coquillart, Sabine

This paper describes a generalization of the god-object method for haptic interaction between rigid bodies. Our approach separates the computation of the motion of the six degree-of-freedom...

A Six Degree-of-Freedom God-Object Method for Haptic Display of Rigid Bodies with Surface Properties (2007)

Ortega, Michael, Redon, Stephane, Coquillart, Sabine

This paper describes a generalization of the god-object method for haptic interaction between rigid bodies. Our approach separates the computation of the motion of the six degree-of-freedom...

Prop-Based Haptic Interaction with Co-location and Immersion: an Automotive Application (2006)

Ortega, Michael, Coquillart, Sabine

Most research on 3D user interfaces aims at providing only a single sensory modality. One challenge is to integrate several sensory modalities into a seamless system while preserving each modality's...

Prop-Based Haptic Interaction with Co-location and Immersion: an Automotive Application (2005)

Ortega, Michael, Coquillart, Sabine

Most research on 3D user interfaces aims at providing only a single sensory modality. One challenge is to integrate several sensory modalities into a seamless system while preserving each modality's...

Prop-Based Haptic Interaction with Co-location and Immersion: an Automotive Application (2005)

Ortega, Michael, Coquillart, Sabine

Most research on 3D user interfaces aims at providing only a single sensory modality. One challenge is to integrate several sensory modalities into a seamless system while preserving each modality's...

Prop-Based Haptic Interaction with Co-location and Immersion: an Automotive Application (2005)

Ortega, Michael, Coquillart, Sabine

Most research on 3D user interfaces aims at providing only a single sensory modality. One challenge is to integrate several sensory modalities into a seamless system while preserving each modality's...

S.: Efficient evaluation of relevance feedback for multidimensional all-pairs retrieval (2003)

Michael Ortega, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra

New retrieval applications support exible comparison for allpairs best match operations based on a notion of similarity or distance. The distance between items is determined by some arbitrary...

Similarity Search Using Multiple Examples in MARS (1999)

Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega, Kaushik Chakrabarti

Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express their exact information need...

Similarity Search Using Multiple Examples in MARS (1999)

Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega, Kaushik Chakrabarti

Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express their exact information need...

Query Reformulation for Content Based Multimedia Retrieval in MARS (1999)

Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega

Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express their exact information need...

Information Retrieval over Multimedia Documents (1999)

Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra

While there are many textual and image retrieval systems, few have explored the granularity of the retrieval unit and the use of all available information for retrieval. This paper presents our work...

Information Retrieval over Multimedia Documents (1999)

Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra

While there are many textual and image retrieval systems, few have explored the granularity of the retrieval unit and the use of all available information for retrieval. This paper presents our work...

Query Reformulation for Content Based Multimedia Retrieval in MARS (1999)

Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega

Unlike traditional database management systems, in content-based multimedia retrieval databases, it is difficult for users to express their exact information need directly in a precise query. A...

Information retrieval beyond the text document (1999)

Yong Rui, Michael Ortega, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra

With the expansion of the Internet, searching for information goes beyond the boundary of physic libraries. Millions of documents of various media types, such as text, image, video, audio, graphics,...

Relevance Feedback: A Power Tool for Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval (1998)

Yong Rui Thomas, Thomas S. Huang, Michael Ortega, Sharad Mehrotra

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. While these...

Information Retrieval Beyond the Text Document (1998)

Yong Rui, Michael Ortega, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra

With the expansion of the Internet, searching for information goes beyond the boundary of physical libraries. Millions of documents of various media types, suchas text, image, video, audio, graphics,...

Supporting Ranked Boolean Similarity Queries in MARS (1998)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra Y

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) [29]. In this paper, we...

Relevance Feedback: A Power Tool for Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval (1998)

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, Michael Ortega, Sharad Mehrotra

Content-Based Image Retrieval #CBIR# has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. While these...

Processing Uncertainty Queries In Database Management Systems (1998)

Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Robert Winkler

Emerging applications, including many military applications, require explicit mechanisms to represent and process uncertainty in queries and in the data stored in databases. Most current approaches...

Query Reformulation for Content Based Multimedia Retrieval in MARS (1998)

Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega

Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support contentbased retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express their exact information need...

Information Retrieval Beyond the Text Document (1998)

Yong Rui, Michael Ortega, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra

With the expansion of the Internet, searching for information goes beyond the boundary of physical libraries. Millions of documents of various media types, such as text, image, video, audio,...

Supporting Ranked Boolean Similarity Queries in MARS (1998)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Kriengkrai Porkaew, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) [29]. In this paper, we...

Supporting Ranked Boolean Similarity Queries in MARS (1998)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Alex Warshavsky, Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas S. Huang

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in our group at the...

Relevance Feedback: A Power Tool for Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval (1998)

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, Michael Ortega, Sharad Mehrotra

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Many visual feature representations have been explored and many systems built. While these...

Supporting ranked Boolean similarity queries in MARS (1998)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Alex Warshavsky, Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas S. Huang

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in our group at the...

Supporting similarity queries in MARS (1997)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas S. Huang

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in our group at the...

Automatic Matching Tool Selection Using Relevance Feedback In Mars (1997)

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega

For a given visual feature, due to the diversity of human's subjective judgment, a visual information retrieval system that supports a single prefixed similarity measure will result in poor...

Supporting Similarity Queries in MARS (1997)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas S. Huang

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System #MARS# in our group at the...

A relevance feedback architecture for content-based multimedia information retrieval systems (1997)

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega

Content-based multimedia information retrieval (MIR) has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Many retrieval approaches based on extracting and representing visual...

Supporting Similarity Queries in MARS (1997)

Michael Ortega, Yong Rui, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Sharad Mehrotra, Thomas S. Huang

To address the emerging needs of applications that require access to and retrieval of multimedia objects, we are developing the Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (MARS) in our group at the...

A Relevance Feedback Architecture for Content-based Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems (1997)

Yong Rui, Michael Ortega

Content-based multimedia information retrieval (MIR) has become one of the most active research areas in the past few years. Many retrieval approaches based on extracting and representing visual...

Automatic Matching Tool Selection Using Relevance Feedback In Mars (1997)

Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Ortega

For a given visual feature, due to the diversity of human's subjective judgment, a visual information retrieval system that supports a single prefixed similarity measure will result in poor...