Annotation and retrieval tools for multimedia digital libraries have to cope with the complexity of multimedia content. In particular, when dealing with video content, annotation ...
In this paper, we present a new method for tracking objects with shadows. Traditional motion-based tracking schemes cannot usually distinguish the shadow from the object itself, a...
We present an approach for measuring similarity between visual entities (images or videos) based on matching internal self-similarities. What is correlated across images (or acros...
In this paper, we introduce to the special domain of image annotation watermarking, based on embedding of hierarchical data related to objects into user-selected areas on an image...
We describe a “bag-of-rectangles” method for representing and recognizing human actions in videos. In this method, each human pose in an action sequence is represented by orien...