Video matting, or layer extraction, is a classic inverse problem in computer vision that involves the extraction of foreground objects, and the alpha mattes that describe their op...
Text retrieval from broadcast news video is unsatisfactory, because a transcript word frequently does not directly ‘describe’ the shot when it was spoken. Extending the retriev...
The classification of human body motion is a difficult problem. In particular, the automatic segmentation of sequences containing more than one class of motion is challenging. An ...
Human action video sequences can be considered as nonlinear dynamic shape manifolds in the space of image frames. In this paper, we address learning and classifying human actions ...
Sparse signal models have been the focus of much recent research, leading to (or improving upon) state-of-the-art results in signal, image, and video restoration. This article ext...
Julien Mairal, Francis Bach, Jean Ponce, Guillermo...