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ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Experiential Sampling based Foreground/Background Segmentation for Video Surveillance
Segmentation of foreground and background has been an important research problem arising out of many applications including video surveillance. A method commonly used for segmenta...
Pradeep K. Atrey, Vinay Kumar, Anurag Kumar, Mohan...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Automatic Addressee Identification Based on Participants' Head Orientation and Utterances for Multiparty Conversations
We propose a method that uses the participants’ head orientation and utterances for automatically identifying the addressee of each utterance in face-to-face multiparty conversa...
Yoshinao Takemae, Shinji Ozawa
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Automatic Content Placement in Sports Highlights
To be viable advertising platforms, methods for in-program content placement in sports video must balance against clutter. We propose viewer relevance (VR) measures of video frame...
Kongwah Wan, Changsheng Xu
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Improving Speaker Diarization by Cross EM Refinement
In this paper, we present a new speaker diarization system that improves the accuracy of traditional hierarchical clustering-based methods with little increase in computational co...
Huazhong Ning, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong, Thomas S. Huan...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Automatic Semantic Annotation of Images using Spatial Hidden Markov Model
This paper presents a new spatial-HMM(SHMM)for automatically classifying and annotating natural images. Our model is a 2D generalization of the traditional HMM in the sense that b...
Feiyang Yu, Horace Ho-Shing Ip
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Image Replica Detection using R-Trees and Linear Discriminant Analysis
In this paper a novel system for image replica detection is presented. The system uses color-based descriptors in order to extract robust features for image representation. These ...
Spyros Nikolopoulos, Stefanos Zafeiriou, Panagioti...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Identify Sports Video Shots with "Happy" or "Sad" Emotions
Semantic video content extraction and selection are critical steps in sports video analysis and editing. The identification of video segments can be from various semantic perspec...
Jinjun Wang, Engsiong Chng, Changsheng Xu, Hanqing...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Experiences with High Definition Interactive Video Conferencing
We review the design and implementation of UltraGrid, a new high definition video conferencing system, and present some experimental results. UltraGrid was the first system to s...
Ladan Gharai, Tom Lehman, Alvaro Saurin, Colin Per...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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A Fingerprinting System for Musical Content
Abstract— Driven by the recent advances in digital entertainment technologies, digital multimedia content (such as music and movies) is becoming a major part of the average compu...
Lahouari Ghouti, Ahmed Bouridane, Mohammad K. Ibra...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Virtual Dental Patient: a System for Virtual Teeth Drilling
This paper introduces, a virtual teeth drilling system named Virtual Dental Patient designed to aid dentists in getting acquainted with the teeth anatomy, the handling of drilling...
Ioannis Marras, Leontios Papaleontiou, Nikolaos Ni...