Abstract. "Cognitive computer vision is concerned with integration and control of vision systems using explicit but not necessarily symbolic models of context, situation and g...
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...
There are a huge number of videos with text tags on the Web nowadays. In this paper, we propose a method of automatically extracting from Web videos video shots corresponding to s...
High-Level music descriptors are key ingredients for music information retrieval systems. Although there is a long tradition in extracting information from acoustic signals, the fi...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...