In this article we present a novel fully automatic character segmentation for camera-based images. This is a top-down approach inspired by the human visual system: the high level ...
Text retrieval from broadcast news video is unsatisfactory, because a transcript word frequently does not directly ‘describe’ the shot when it was spoken. Extending the retriev...
Emotion recognition from speech plays an important role in developing affective and intelligent systems. This study investigates sentence-level emotion recognition. We propose to ...
We propose to use high-level visual information to improve illuminant estimation. Several illuminant estimation approaches are applied to compute a set of possible illuminants. Fo...
Joost van de Weijer, Cordelia Schmid, Jakob J. Ver...
We describe a technique for video summarization that uses motion descriptors computed in the compressed domain to speed up conventional color based video summarization technique. ...