One of the most severe problems in hybrid video coding is its block-based approach, which leads to distortions called blocking artifacts. These artifacts affect not only the subje...
Illumination invariance remains the most researched, yet the most challenging aspect of automatic face recognition. In this paper we propose a novel, general recognition framework...
In many cases, visual tracking is based on detecting, describing, and then matching local features. A variety of algorithms for these steps have been proposed and used in tracking...
In this article the activities of the INEX 2005 Multimedia track are reported. We succesfully realized our objective, to provide an evaluation platform for the evaluation of retrie...
Hand jitters result in unintentional fluctuation of image sequences taken by hand-held video cameras. Stabilization of the foreground object of interest in pictures is essential f...