Movies segmentation into semantically correlated units is a quite tedious task due to ”semantic gap”. Low-level features do not provide useful information about the semantical...
We propose a region-based method to extract semantic foreground regions from color video sequences with static backgrounds. First, we introduce a new distance measure for backgrou...
A smart interactive video object generation (SIVOG) system is proposed in this work. SIVOG provides a semantic layer to interact with the user. It interprets user’s input and ch...
Joke-o-mat HD is a system that allows a user to navigate sitcoms (such as Seinfeld) by "narrative themes", including scenes, punchlines, and dialog segments. The themes ...
For more efficient organizing, browsing, and retrieving digital video content, it is important to extract video structure information at both scene and shot levels. This paper pre...