This paper discusses the influence of the corpus on the automatic identification of proper names in texts. Techniques developed for the newswire genre are generally not sufficient...
Abstract. The exploitation of video data requires to extract information at a rather semantic level, and then, methods able to infer "concepts" from low-level video featu...
We describe a new technique that uses active scene illumination to perform foreground-background segmentation and recover partial HDR information. We explore the fact that relativ...
We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. "Events" are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always...
This article presents a novel integrated approach to object of interest extraction, including learning to define target pattern and extracting by combining detection and segmenta...