Image retrieval based on content from digital libraries, multimedia databases, the Internet, and other sources has been an important problem addressed by several researchers. In t...
Television news has become the predominant way of understanding the world around us, but individual news broadcasters can frame or mislead an audience’s understanding of politic...
Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the problem of classifying a subset of environmental sounds in movie audio tracks that indicate specific indexical semiotic use. These envi...
Facial animation has been combined with text-to-speech synthesis to create innovative multimodal interfaces. In this paper, we present an architecture for this multimodal interfac...
The increase of bandwidth and streaming technology has made video on the Web the current “killer-app” of the dot-com world. However, users still face many problems. Users have...