In this work we aim to capitalize on the availability of Internet image search engines to automatically create image training sets from user provided queries. This problem is part...
Videos from distributed sources (e.g., broadcasts, podcasts, blogs, etc.) have grown exponentially. Topic threading is very useful for organizing such large-volume information sou...
Database search for images containing icons with specific mutual spatial relationships can be facilitated by an appropriately structured index. For the case of images containing s...
This paper presents a system that detects humans climbing fences. After extracting a binary blob contour, the system models the human with an extended star-skeleton representation...
We are dealing in this paper with audio segmentation. We propose a two level segmentation process that enables the audio tracks to be sampled in short sequences which are classifi...