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VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Query Processing and Optimization for Pictorial Query Trees
Abstract. Methods for processing of pictorial queries speci ed by pictorial query trees are presented. Leaves of a pictorial query tree correspond to individual pictorial queries w...
Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Local Color Analysis for Scene Break Detection Applied to TV Commercials Recognition
TV commercials recognition is a need for advertisers in order to check the ful llment of their contracts with TV stations. In this paper we present an approach to this problem base...
Juan María Sánchez, Xavier Binefa, J...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Similarity Search Using Multiple Examples in MARS
Abstract. Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express...
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Orteg...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Generic Viewer Interaction Semantics for Dynamic Virtual Video Synthesis
The FRAMES project is developing a system for video database search, content-based retrieval, and virtual video program synthesis. For dynamic synthesis applications, a video progr...
Craig A. Lindley, Anne-Marie Vercoustre
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Contour-Based Shape Similarity
This paper gives an overview of shape dissimilarity measure properties, such as metric and robustness properties, and of retrieval performance measures. Fifteen shape similarity me...
Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakämper
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Crawling for Images on the WWW
Search engines are useful because they allow the user to nd information of interest from the World-Wide Web. These engines use a crawler to gather information from Web sites. Howev...
Junghoo Cho, Sougata Mukherjea
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Querying Multimedia Data Sources and Databases
To support the retrieval and fusion of multimedia information from multiple sources and databases, a spatial/temporal query language called ΣQL is proposed. ΣQL is based upon th...
Shi-Kuo Chang, Gennaro Costagliola, Erland Jungert
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Genetic Algorithm for Weights Assignment in Dissimilarity Function for Trademark Retrieval
Abstract. Trademark image retrieval is becoming an important application for logo registry, veri cation, and design. There are two major problems about the current approaches to tr...
David Yuk-Ming Chan, Irwin King
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Blobworld: A System for Region-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval
Blobworld is a system for image retrieval based on nding coherent image regions which roughly correspond to objects. Each image is automatically segmented into regions  blobs"...
Chad Carson, Megan Thomas, Serge Belongie, Joseph ...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Integrated Parsing of Compressed Video
A technique for detecting scene changes in compressed video streams is proposed which combines multiple modes of information. The proposed technique directly exploits and combines ...
Suchendra M. Bhandarkar, Yashodhan S. Warke, Aparn...