We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
Content based retrieval of similar multimedia objects (e.g. images, text, and videos) is an important research issue in the field of multimedia database. In this demo, we present ...
H.264/AVC has brought an important increase in coding efficiency in comparison to previous video coding standards. One of its features is the use of macroblock partitioning in a t...
There is an increasingly pressing need to develop document analysis methods that are able to cope with images of documents containing printed regions of complex shapes. Contrary t...
In this paper, we present a new method for detecting curvilinear structures in a gray-scale image. The concept of skeleton extraction is introduced to detect more general structur...