Why does placing an object from one photograph into another often make the colors of that object suddenly look wrong? One possibility is that humans prefer distributions of colors...
We propose a region-based method to extract semantic foreground regions from color video sequences with static backgrounds. First, we introduce a new distance measure for backgrou...
Object-level image retrieval is an active area of research. Given an image, a human observerdoesnot see randomdots of colors. Rather,he she observesfamiliarobjectsin the image. The...
Retrieval and indexing in multimedia databases has been an active topic both in the Information Retrieval and computer vision communities for a long time. In this paper we propose...