MPEG-4 which is currently being developed by MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group), is poised to become a standard for supporting current and emerging interactive multimedia applic...
The rapid growth in all forms of electronic publishing is creating many new problems – both technical and socio-economic. This paper examines some of these from three different ...
Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia image by content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBI...
Today many kinds of postprocessing are used in digital TV receivers or multimedia terminals for video signals to enhance the picture quality. To achieve this the properties of hum...
Semantic detection and recognition of objects and events contained in a video stream has to be performed in order to provide content-based annotation and retrieval of videos. This...
Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo,...