Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
The Informedia Digital Library Project [Wactlar96] allows full content indexing and retrieval of text, audio and video material. Segmentation is an integral process in the Informe...
In this paper, we present an approach for speaker change detection in broadcast video using joint audio-visual scene change statistics. Our experiments indicate that using joint a...
Abstract-- This paper presents a fully automatic news skimming system which takes a broadcast news audio stream and provides the user with the segmented, structured and highlighted...
The high availability of video streams is making necessary mechanisms for indexing such contents in the Web world. In this paper we focus on news programs and we propose a mechani...