According to Thomas L. Friedman, the world has become “flat” with collaboration among individuals in most if not all aspects of life becoming reality. The Internet is the back...
When the user of a digital camera records an image, there is some presumption that when displayed, there is an accurate tonal representation. However, this is almost never the cas...
The accurate recognition of text that appears in images/videos using analytical character recognition methods is often very difficult, despite the fact that the text might be corr...
Similarity search is a fundamental operation for applications that deal with unstructured data sources. In this paper we propose a new pivot-based method for similarity search, ca...
Lecture recordings can be a powerful addition to traditional lectures and they can even serve as a main content source in a number of didactic scenarios. If users can quickly loca...