Topic tracking is an important task of Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). Its purpose is to detect stories, from a stream of news, related to known topics. Each topic is “knownâ...
We describe an automatic classroom capture system that detects and records significant (stable) points in lectures by sampling and analyzing a sequence of screen capture frames fr...
Paul E. Dickson, W. Richards Adrion, Allen R. Hans...
Hazard detection and prevention of natural and manmade disasters at critical civil infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Recent events, such as earthquakes and terror...
Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Falko Kuester, Oscar Garc&...
Recognition of motions and activities of objects in videos requires effective representations for analysis and matching of motion trajectories. In this paper, we introduce a new r...
We introduce a new task-independent framework to model top-down overt visual attention based on graphical models for probabilistic inference and reasoning. We describe a Dynamic B...