Automatic extraction of content description from commercial audio recordings has a number of important applications, from indexing and retrieval through to novel musicological ana...
Segmenting different individuals in a group meeting and their speech is an important first step for various tasks such as meeting transcription, automatic camera panning, multime...
This paper presents an image retrieval method based on region shape similarity. In our approach, we first segment images into primitive regions and then combine some of the primit...
Face detection has many interesting applications such as a face recognition system, a surveillance system, and videolimage indexing system. In this paper, we propose a new method ...
Image segmentation is not only hard and unnecessary for texture-based image retrieval, but can even be harmful. Images of either individual or multiple textures are best described...