In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...
One of the major challenges facing current media management systems and related applications is the so-called ‘‘semantic gap’’ between the rich meaning that a user desires...
Baoxin Li, James H. Errico, Hao Pan, M. Ibrahim Se...
In western art music, composers communicate their work to performers via a standard notation which specificies the musical pitches and relative timings of notes. This notation ma...
We present a framework for analyzing the structure of digital media streams. Though our methods work for video, text, and audio, we concentrate on detecting the structure of digit...
In an earlier study a Semantic Content Based Image Retrieval system was developed. The system requires a Visual Object Process Diagram - VOPD to be created for each image in the d...
In this paper, we present an approach to extract scenes in video. The approach is top-down and uses video editing rules and audio cues to extract simple dialog and action scenes. ...