Human vision system actively seeks interesting regions in images to reduce the search effort in tasks, such as object detection and recognition. Similarly, prominent actions in v...
In this article, we present the algorithms and results of our participation in the medical image annotation and retrieval tasks of ImageCLEFmed 2006. We exploit both global featur...
Jing Liu, Yang Hu, Mingjing Li, Songde Ma, Wei-Yin...
Sign board detection is important for such computer vision applications as video surveillance and content based visual information retrieval. Previous researches on this topic foc...
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...
If an image should be retrieved by its subregions from a large image database, an immense number of possible queries will appear. Therefore, the index which encodes the spatial in...