Region-based functionality offered by the MPEG-4 video compression standard is also appealing for still images, for example to permit object-based queries of a still-image database...
The social media site Flickr allows users to upload their photos, annotate them with tags, submit them to groups, and also to form social networks by adding other users as contact...
When given a single static picture, humans can not only interpret the instantaneous content captured by the image, but also they are able to infer the chain of dynamic events that ...
Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
Representation of relative spatial relations between objects is required in many multimedia database applications. Quantitative representation of spatial relations taking into acc...