— An important problem in color based image retrieval is the lack of efficient way to represent both the color and the spatial structure information with single descriptor. To so...
To bridge the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval, detecting meaningful visual entities (e.g. faces, sky, foliage, buildings etc) in image content and classifying images...
The massive amount of near-duplicate and duplicate web videos has presented both challenge and opportunity to multimedia computing. On one hand, browsing videos on Internet become...
This paper describes an audio retrieval system,Quebex,that works on raw audio data. The system is able to retrieve songs that are rhythmically and timbrewise similar from a databa...
In case the objective function to be minimized is not known analytically and no assumption can be made about the single extremum, global optimization (GO) methods must be used. Pap...