New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7, compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve and prese...
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fern&aa...
This paper first outlines a multi-level video indexing approach based on Dublin Core extensions and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The advantages and disadvantages of t...
We propose a novel statistical descriptor, Multiple References Histogram Matrix (MRHM), for robust shape retrieval, especially for degraded shape images. For each shape image, MRHM...
One of the goals of the ACTS project MODEST is to build an automatic video-surveillance system from a sequence of digital images. The overall system can be divided into the followi...
Patrick Piscaglia, Andrea Cavallaro, Michel Bonnet...
This paper introduces a new approach of approximating the selectivity of multimedia range queries. Estimating the selectivity of a range query is a pre-requisite to optimize a mul...