MPEG-4 FGS (Fine Granularity Scalability) has received tremendous attentions because it has ability to adapt to the network bandwidth variation. In this paper, we present a novel ...
The automatic extraction of sports video highlights is a typical kind of personalized media production process. Many ways have been studied from the viewpoints of lowlevel audio/v...
This paper introduces a novel image-based rendering method which uses inputs from unstructured cameras and synthesizes free-viewpoint images of high quality. Our method uses a set...
We propose a non-linear image enhancement method based on Gabor filters, which allows selective enhancement based on the contrast sensitivity function of the human visual system. ...
This paper aims to contribute to the analysis and description of semantic video content by investigating what actions are important in films. We apply a corpus analysis method to ...
An intelligent emotion recognition system, interweaving psychological findings about emotion representation with analysis and evaluation of facial expressions has been generated a...
Roddy Cowie, Ellen Douglas-Cowie, John G. Taylor, ...
The ever-increasing complexity of generic MultimediaContent-Analysis-based (MCA) solutions, their processing power demanding nature and the need to prototype and assess solutions ...
Jan Nesvadba, Pedro Fonseca, Alexander Sinitsyn, F...
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been widely used to extract features for pattern recognition problems such as object recognition. Oliva and Torralba used “spatial envelop...
This paper introduces a new approach of approximating the selectivity of multimedia range queries. Estimating the selectivity of a range query is a pre-requisite to optimize a mul...