In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
Keyframe extraction constitutes a fundamental unit in many video retrieval-related applications. In the emerging research field of content-based video copy detection, efficient rep...
Two algorithms are presented for the detection of gradual transitions in video sequences. The first is a dissolve detection algorithm utilizing certain properties of a dissolve...
Abstract--The emerging video coding standard MPEG-4 enables various content-based functionalities for multimedia applications. To support such functionalities, as well as to improv...
This paper presents part of a new DIA performance analysis framework aimed at Layout Analysis algorithm developers. A new region-representation scheme (an interval-based descripti...