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TMM
2008
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Performance Analysis of Resource Selection Schemes for a Large Scale Video-on-Demand System
The designers of a large scale video-on-demand system face an optimization problem of deciding how to assign movies to multiple disks (servers) such that the request blocking proba...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
TMM
2008
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Fast Best-Match Shape Searching in Rotation-Invariant Metric Spaces
Object recognition and content-based image retrieval systems rely heavily on the accurate and efficient identification of shapes. A fundamental requirement in the shape analysis p...
Dragomir Yankov, Eamonn J. Keogh, Li Wei, Xiaopeng...
TMM
2008
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Multimodal News Story Clustering With Pairwise Visual Near-Duplicate Constraint
Story clustering is a critical step for news retrieval, topic mining, and summarization. Nonetheless, the task remains highly challenging owing to the fact that news topics exhibit...
Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexander G. Hauptmann
TMM
2008
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Extraction of Audio Features Specific to Speech Production for Multimodal Speaker Detection
A method that exploits an information theoretic framework to extract optimized audio features using video information is presented. A simple measure of mutual information (MI) betw...
Patricia Besson, Vlad Popovici, Jean-Marc Vesin, J...
TMM
2008
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Face Annotation Using Transductive Kernel Fisher Discriminant
Jianke Zhu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu
TMM
2008
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Mining Appearance Models Directly From Compressed Video
In this paper, we propose an approach to learning appearance models of moving objects directly from compressed video. The appearance of a moving object changes dynamically in vide...
Datong Chen, Qiang Liu, Mingui Sun, Jie Yang
TMM
2008
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Optimal Coding of Multilayer and Multiversion Video Streams
Abstract--Traditional video servers partially cope with heterogeneous client populations by maintaining a few versions of the same stream with different bit rates. More recent vide...
Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda
TMM
2008
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Implementing the 2-D Wavelet Transform on SIMD-Enhanced General-Purpose Processors
Abstract--The 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) consumes up to 68% of the JPEG2000 encoding time. In this paper, we develop efficient implementations of this important kernel on...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...