Inspired by Weber's Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that human percept...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Guoying Zhao, Xilin Chen,...
A novel video object segmentation method is proposed which aims at combining color and motion information. The model has a multilayer structure: Each feature has its own layer, cal...
Among the various types of semantic concepts modeled, events pose the greatest challenge in terms of computational power needed to represent the event and accuracy that can be ach...
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...
Semantic scene classification is a useful, yet challenging problem in image understanding. Most existing systems are based on low-level features, such as color or texture, and suc...
Matthew R. Boutell, Anustup Choudhury, Jiebo Luo, ...