In this paper previous work on the detection of high-level concepts within multimedia documents is extended by introducing a mid-level ontology as a means of exploiting the visual ...
Evaggelos Spyrou, Phivos Mylonas, Yannis S. Avrith...
Mobile devices which can capture and view pictures are becoming increasingly common in our life. The limitation of these small-form-factor devices makes the user experience of ima...
— This paper presents a visual attention mechanism for the acquisition of landmarks in an arbitrary scene. The proposed mechanism consists of two consecutive selection stages. Th...
The use of salient regions is an increasingly popular approach to image retrieval. For situations where object retrieval is required and where the foreground and background can be ...
We describe a novel method for directing the attention of an automated surveillance system. Our starting premise is that the attention of people in a scene can be used as an indica...