In this paper we describe an approach that uses a combination of visual and audio features to cluster shots belonging to the same person together in video programs. We use color h...
Background: The hierarchical clustering tree (HCT) with a dendrogram [1] and the singular value decomposition (SVD) with a dimension-reduced representative map [2] are popular met...
Many computer vision algorithms such as object tracking and event detection assume that a background model of the scene under analysis is known. However, in many practical circums...
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...
The goal of this work is the automatic inference of frequent patterns of the cortical sulci, namely patterns that can be observed only for a subset of the population. The sulci are...