In this paper, we describe a statistical method to detect highlights in a baseball game video. The input video is first segmented into scene shots, within which the camera motion ...
In this paper, we consider the problem of keyword query cleaning for structured databases from a probabilistic approach. Keyword query cleaning consists of rewriting the user quer...
Information extraction can be defined as the task of automatically extracting instances of specified classes or relations from text. We consider the case of using machine learni...
This paper presents an event detector for emergencies in crowds. Assuming a single camera and a dense crowd we rely on optical flow instead of tracking statistics as a feature to ...
Ernesto L. Andrade, Scott Blunsden, Robert B. Fish...
This paper proposes an interpolating extension to hidden Markov models (HMMs), which allows more accurate modeling of natural sounds sources. The model is able to produce observat...