High-Level music descriptors are key ingredients for music information retrieval systems. Although there is a long tradition in extracting information from acoustic signals, the fi...
Despite the ubiquity of computers and on-line documents, paper persists. As physical objects, paper documents are easy to use, flexible, portable and are difficult to replace. Eve...
This paper discusses how model-based approaches can support designers and developers to address a number of challenges raised by universal usability, such as the possibility of ob...
Today’s mobile communication systems use sophisticated signal processing to achieve high transmission rates. Therefore a high complexity in the digital system part as well as ve...
Human gait is a spatio-temporal phenomenon and typifies the motion characteristics of an individual. The gait of a person is easily recognizable when extracted from a sideview of...
Amit A. Kale, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury, Rama Chellapp...
We present a distributed vision-based surveillance system. The system acquires and processes grey level images through one or multiple Camera Units monitoring certain area(s) via ...
Xiaojing Yuan, Zehang Sun, Yaakov L. Varol, George...
Using cameras for detecting hazardous or suspicious events has spurred new research for security concerns. To make such detection reliable, researchers must overcome difficulties...
Yi-Leh Wu, Long Jiao, Gang Wu, Edward Y. Chang, Yu...
A smart and simple algorithm is presented in this paper for vehicle’s license plate recognition system. Based on pattern matching, this algorithm can be applied for real time de...
Choudhury A. Rahman, Wael M. Badawy, Ahmad Radmane...
This paper is concerned with a particular application of image stabilization1 . Image stabilization is a necessary step to reduce the effect of camera motion when, as in this case...
Stefano Piva, Michela Zara, Gianluca Gera, Carlo S...