Text area detection from video frame is an essential step for Video OCR. The key problem is the complex background of the video frames. This paper proposes a novel approach to this...
Abstract. Color histogram is one of the most widely used visual feature representations in content-based retrieval. When processing the image/video data in the JPEG/MPEG compressed...
Multimedia databases deal with storage and retrieval of complex descriptors of image contents, called features. Traditional techniques consider features as “black boxes,” ofte...
A multimedia report is a multimedia presentation which integrates data returned by one or more queries to a multimedia database, thus extending the concept of report familiar in tr...
Because digital images are not meaningful by themselves, images are often coupled with some descriptive or qualitative data in an image database. Moreover the division of these da...
The concept of multimedia metacomputing involves the formation of a large scale loosely coupled multiprocessing environment capable of performing complex transformations on media ...
This paper introduces a novel access control architecture for publicly accessible, wireless networks. The architecture was designed to address the requirements obtained from a case...
Stefan Schmid, Joe Finney, Maomao Wu, Adrian Frida...
—We claim that the renting of machine resources on clusters of servers introduces new systems challenges which are different from those hitherto encountered, either in multimedia...