A. Aggarwal, D. A. Hinneburg, and . Keim, Mean frequency and mean frequency error for each dataset Collection des Publications Internes de l'Irisa c IRISA References On the surprising behavior of distance metrics in high dimensional space, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp.420-434, 2001.

G. Amati and C. J. Van-rijsbergen, Probabilistic models of information retrieval based on measuring the divergence from randomness, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol.20, issue.4, pp.357-389, 2002.
DOI : 10.1145/582415.582416

A. Bosch, A. Zisserman, and X. Munoz, Scene Classification Via pLSA, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, 2006.
DOI : 10.1007/11744085_40

S. Boughorbel, N. Boujemaa, and C. Vertan, Histogram-based color signatures for image indexing, Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, 2002.

C. Buckley, G. Salton, and J. Allan, Automatic retrieval with locality information using SMART, Proceedings of the first Text Retrieval Conference, 1992.

G. Carneiro and A. D. Jepson, Flexible spatial models for grouping local image features, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004. CVPR 2004., pp.747-754, 2004.
DOI : 10.1109/CVPR.2004.1315239

O. Chum, J. Philbin, J. Sivic, M. Isard, and A. Zisserman, Total Recall: Automatic Query Expansion with a Generative Feature Model for Object Retrieval, 2007 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Vision, 2007.
DOI : 10.1109/ICCV.2007.4408891

G. Csurka, C. R. Dance, L. Fan, J. Willamowski, and C. Bray, Visual categorization with bags of keypoints, ECCV: Workshop on Statistical Learning in Computer Vision, 2004.

L. Fei-fei, R. Fergus, and P. Perona, Learning generative visual models from few training examples: An incremental Bayesian approach tested on 101 object categories, IEEE CVPR 2004, Workshop on Generative-Model Based Vision, 2004.
DOI : 10.1016/j.cviu.2005.09.012

S. P. Harter, A probabilistic approach to automatic keyword indexing. Part I. On the Distribution of Specialty Words in a Technical Literature, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol.24, issue.4, pp.197-216, 1975.
DOI : 10.1002/asi.4630260402

P. Howarth and S. Rüger, Evaluation of Texture Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval, Proceedings of the third international Conference on Image and Video Retrieval : CIVR 2004, pp.326-334, 2004.
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-27814-6_40

P. Howarth and S. Rüger, Fractional Distance Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval, 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp.447-456, 2005.
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_32

M. Jamieson, S. Dickinson, S. Stevenson, and S. Wachsmuth, Using Language to Drive the Perceptual Grouping of Local Image Features, 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Volume 2 (CVPR'06), pp.2102-2109, 2006.
DOI : 10.1109/CVPR.2006.325

H. Jegou, H. Harzallah, and C. Schmid, A contextual dissimilarity measure for accurate and efficient image search, 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.1-8, 2007.
DOI : 10.1109/CVPR.2007.382970

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00394210

H. Jegou, M. Douze, and C. Schmid, Hamming embedding and weak spatial consistency for large scale image search, Proceedings of ECCV, 2008.

Y. Jiang, C. Ngo, and J. Yang, Towards optimal bag-of-features for object categorization and semantic video retrieval, Proceedings of the 6th ACM international conference on Image and video retrieval, CIVR '07, pp.494-501, 2007.
DOI : 10.1145/1282280.1282352

K. S. Jones, S. Walker, and S. E. Robertson, A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments (part 1) Information Processing and Management, pp.779-808, 2000.

K. S. Jones, S. Walker, and S. E. Robertson, A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and comparative experiments (part 2) Information Processing and Management, pp.809-840, 2000.

D. Larlus and F. Jurie, Latent Mixture Vocabularies for Object Categorization, Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2006, 2006.
DOI : 10.5244/C.20.98

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00203721

K. Mikolajczyk, T. Tuytelaars, C. Schmid, A. Zisserman, J. Matas et al., A Comparison of Affine Region Detectors, International Journal of Computer Vision, vol.65, issue.1-2, pp.43-72, 2005.
DOI : 10.1007/s11263-005-3848-x

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00548528

K. Mikolajczyk and C. Schmid, A performance evaluation of local descriptors, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.27, issue.10, pp.1615-1630, 2005.
DOI : 10.1109/TPAMI.2005.188

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inria-00548227

D. Nister and H. Stewenius, Scalable Recognition with a Vocabulary Tree, 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Volume 2 (CVPR'06), pp.2161-2168, 2006.
DOI : 10.1109/CVPR.2006.264

J. Philbin, O. Chum, M. Isard, J. Sivic, and A. Zisserman, Object retrieval with large vocabularies and fast spatial matching, 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007.
DOI : 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383172

S. Ramanujan, The lost notebook and other unpublished papers, 1988.

S. E. Robertson, THE PROBABILITY RANKING PRINCIPLE IN IR, Journal of Documentation, vol.33, issue.4, pp.294-304, 1977.
DOI : 10.1108/eb026647

S. E. Robertson, S. Walker, S. Jones, M. M. Hancock-beaulieu, and M. Gatford, Okapi at trec-3, 3rd Text Retrieval Conference, pp.109-126, 1995.

G. Salton and C. Buckley, Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval. Information Processing and Management, pp.513-523, 1988.

J. Sivic and A. Zisserman, Video Google: a text retrieval approach to object matching in videos, Proceedings Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, pp.1470-1477, 2003.
DOI : 10.1109/ICCV.2003.1238663

F. Song, A general language model for information retrieval, Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management , CIKM '99, pp.279-280, 1999.
DOI : 10.1145/319950.320022

P. Tirilly, V. Claveau, and P. Gros, Language modeling for bag-of-visual words image categorization, Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Content-based image and video retrieval, CIVR '08, pp.249-258, 2008.
DOI : 10.1145/1386352.1386388

URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00811922

J. Yang, Y. Jiang, A. G. Hauptmann, and C. Ngo, Evaluating bag-of-visual-words representations in scene classification, Proceedings of the international workshop on Workshop on multimedia information retrieval , MIR '07, pp.197-206, 2007.
DOI : 10.1145/1290082.1290111

Q. Zheng, W. Wang, and W. Gao, Effective and efficient object-based image retrieval using visual phrases, Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia , MULTIMEDIA '06, pp.77-80, 2006.
DOI : 10.1145/1180639.1180664