We present a probabilistic ranking-driven classifier for the detection of video semantic concept, such as airplane, building, etc. Most existing concept detection systems utilize ...
This paper describes an initial prototype demonstrator of a Companion, designed as a platform for novel approaches to the following: 1) The use of Information Extraction (IE) tech...
Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, We...
The automatic detection of near duplicate video segments, such as multiple takes of a scene or different news video clips showing the same event, has received growing research int...
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...
This paper presents a novel method for detecting and localizing objects of a visual category in cluttered real-world scenes. Our approach considers object categorization and figure...