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We consider interactive tools that help users search for their most preferred item in a large collection of options. In particular, we examine example-critiquing, a technique for enabling users to incrementally construct preference models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-04 B. Faltings , P. Pu , P. Viappiani

Visualization recommendation work has focused solely on scoring visualizations based on the underlying dataset and not the actual user and their past visualization feedback. These systems recommend the same visualizations for every user,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Xin Qian , Ryan A. Rossi , Fan Du , Sungchul Kim , Eunyee Koh , Sana Malik , Tak Yeon Lee , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Recent results of deep convolutional networks in visual recognition challenges open the path to a whole new set of disruptive user experiences such as visual search or recommendation. The list of companies offering this type of service is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Arnaud Bellétoile

Generative AI is reshaping fashion by enabling virtual looks and avatars making it essential to find real products that best match AI-generated styles. We propose an end-to-end product search system that has been deployed in a real-world,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Pradeep M , Ritesh Pallod , Satyen Abrol , Muthu Raman , Ian Anderson

Most state-of-the-art image retrieval and recommendation systems predominantly focus on individual images. In contrast, socially curated image collections, condensing distinctive yet coherent images into one set, are largely overlooked by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yuncheng Li , Yang Cong , Tao Mei , Jiebo Luo

Creating promotional posts on social platforms enables everyday users to disseminate their creative outcomes, engage in community exchanges, or generate additional income from micro-businesses. However, creating eye-catching posts combining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xuye Liu , Annie Sun , Pengcheng An , Tengfei Ma , Jian Zhao

A sudden reliance on the internet has resulted in the global standardization of specific software and interfaces tailored for the average user. Whether it be web apps or dedicated software, the methods of interaction are seemingly similar.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Guy Meyer , Alan Wassyng , Mark Lawford , Kourosh Sabri , Shahram Shirani

When people search for information about a new topic within large document collections, they implicitly construct a mental model of the unfamiliar information space to represent what they currently know and guide their exploration into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mengtian Guo , Zhilan Zhou , David Gotz , Yue Wang

Machine learning tasks over image databases often generate masks that annotate image content (e.g., saliency maps, segmentation maps, depth maps) and enable a variety of applications (e.g., determine if a model is learning spurious…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Dong He , Jieyu Zhang , Maureen Daum , Alexander Ratner , Magdalena Balazinska

Identifying trendline visualizations with desired patterns is a common and fundamental data exploration task. Existing visual analytics tools offer limited flexibility and expressiveness for such tasks, especially when the pattern of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Tarique Siddiqui , Zesheng Wang , Paul Luh , Karrie Karahalios , Aditya Parameswaran

Visual blends combine elements from two distinct visual concepts into a single, integrated image, with the goal of conveying ideas through imaginative and often thought-provoking visuals. Communicating abstract concepts through visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhida Sun , Zhenyao Zhang , Yue Zhang , Min Lu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

We present Ver, a data discovery system that identifies project-join views over large repositories of tables that do not contain join path information, and even when input queries are inaccurate. Ver implements a reference architecture to…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yue Gong , Zhiru Zhu , Sainyam Galhotra , Raul Castro Fernandez

Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. To choose a suitable visualization tool, practitioners need to analyze various characteristics of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Leonel Merino , Ekaterina Kozlova , Oscar Nierstrasz , Daniel Weiskopf

A publicly available dataset for federated search reflecting a real web environment has long been absent, making it difficult for researchers to test the validity of their federated search algorithms for the web setting. We present several…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Dong Nguyen , Thomas Demeester , Dolf Trieschnigg , Djoerd Hiemstra

A popular approach to semantic image understanding is to manually tag images with keywords and then learn a mapping from vi- sual features to keywords. Manually tagging images is a subjective pro- cess and the same or very similar visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Ke Sun , Xianxu Hou , Qian Zhang , Guoping Qiu

Visualization and virtual environments (VEs) have been two interconnected parallel strands in visual computing for decades. Some VEs have been purposely developed for visualization applications, while many visualization applications are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Min Chen , Kelly Gaither , Nigel W. John , Brian McCann

With the wide usage of data visualizations, a huge number of Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG)-based visualizations have been created and shared online. Accordingly, there has been an increasing interest in exploring how to retrieve…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Haotian Li , Yong Wang , Aoyu Wu , Huan Wei , Huamin Qu

We present a deterministic small-step operational semantics for miniKanren that explicitly represents the evolving search tree during execution. This semantics models interleaving and goal scheduling at fine granularity, allowing each…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Brysen Pfingsten , Jason Hemann

Searching large digital repositories can be extremely frustrating, as common list-based formats encourage users to adopt a convenience-sampling approach that favours chance discovery and random search, over meaningful exploration. We have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Tanya Howden , Pierre Le Bras , Thomas S. Methven , Stefano Padilla , Mike J. Chantler

With a vast number of items, web-pages, and news to choose from, online services and the customers both benefit tremendously from personalized recommender systems. Such systems however provide great opportunities for targeted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-16 Subhashini Krishnasamy , Rajat Sen , Sewoong Oh , Sanjay Shakkottai