Images can affect people on an emotional level. Since the emotions that arise in the viewer of an image are highly subjective, they are rarely indexed. However there are situation...
We designed and implemented a digital library system that supports content-based retrieval of multimedia objects based on MPEG-7 and XQuery. MPEG-7, a metadata standard for multim...
In information retrieval, sub-space techniques are usually used to reveal the latent semantic structure of a data-set by projecting it to a low dimensional space. Non-negative mat...
We have developed a two-phase generative / discriminative learning procedure for the recognition of classes of objects and concepts in outdoor scenes. Our method uses both multipl...
Raster maps are widely available and contain useful geographic features such as labels and road lines. To extract the geographic features, most research work relies on a manual st...