Earlier this year, a major effort was initiated to study the theoretical and empirical aspects of the automatic detection of semantic concepts in broadcast video, complementing ong...
Supporting multimedia search has emerged as an important research topic. There are three paradigms on the research spectrum that ranges from the least automatic to the most automat...
Past research on automatic laughter detection has focused mainly on audio-based detection. Here we present an audiovisual approach to distinguishing laughter from speech and we sh...
Motion information is a powerful cue for visual perception. In the context of video indexing and retrieval, motion content serves as a useful source for compact video representati...
In this paper, we present a new method for texture classification which we call the regularized simultaneous autoregressive method (RSAR). The regularization technique is introduc...