— Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding ...
We present an efficient algorithm that checks the consistency of partial descriptions of ordered trees. The constraint language of these descriptions was introduced by Cornell in c...
This paper presents techniques for multimedia annotation and their application to video summarization and translation. Our tool for annotation allows users to easily create annota...
This chapter considers, on the one hand, extensions of Description Logics by features not available in the basic framework, but considered important for using Description Logics a...
Abstract We address the problem of indexing broadcast audiovisual documents (such as films, news). Starting from a collection of so-called shots, we aim at building automatically h...