—Compound images are a combination of text, graphics and natural image. They present strong anisotropic features, especially on the text and graphics parts. These anisotropic fea...
Abstract. Having effective and efficient methods to get access to desired images is essential nowadays with the huge amount of digital images. This paper presents an analogy betwee...
Ismail Elsayad, Jean Martinet, Thierry Urruty, Cha...
Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
Humans tend to use high-level semantic concepts when querying and browsing multimedia databases; there is thus, a need for systems that extract these concepts and make available a...
The variety of features available to represent multimedia data constitutes a rich pool of information. However, the plethora of data poses a challenge in terms of feature selectio...