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ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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The Semantic Pathfinder for Generic News Video Indexing
This paper presents the semantic pathfinder architecture for generic indexing of video archives. The pathfinder automatically extracts semantic concepts from video based on the ...
Cees G. M. Snoek, Marcel Worring, Jan-Mark Geusebr...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Perceptually Enhanced Bit-Plane Coding for Scalable Audio
The MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless (SLS) audio coding is recently being developed to provide a unified solution for high compression perceptual audio coding and high-quality lossles...
Rongshan Yu, Te Li, Susanto Rahardja
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Acoustic Echo Cancellation in a Channel with Rapidly Varying Gain
We present a method for performing acoustic echo cancellation in a channel with rapidly varying gain and thus a rapidly varying channel characteristic. This is a situation in whic...
Sumit Basu
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Where was the Picture Taken: Image Localization in Route Panoramas Using Epipolar Geometry
Finding the location where a picture was taken is an important problem for a variety of applications including surveying, interactive traveling and homeland security among others....
Saad M. Khan, Fahd Rafi, Mubarak Shah
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Tricodes: A Barcode-Like Fiducial Design for Augmented Reality Media
Visual markers, or fiducials, have become one of the most common methods of camera pose estimation in Augmented Reality (AR) media. Many present day fiducial-based AR systems us...
Jonathan Mooser, Suya You, Ulrich Neumann
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Matching Faces with Textual Cues in Soccer Videos
In soccer videos, most significant actions are usually followed by close–up shots of players that take part in the action itself. Automatically annotating the identity of the p...
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Walter Nunziati
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Analysis and Evaluation of the Skype and Google-Talk Voip Systems
In this paper, we study Skype and Google Talk, two widely used VoIP systems, and compare their perceptual speech quality with that of our proposed system using UDP packet traces c...
Batu Sat, Benjamin W. Wah
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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SVM-Based Shot Boundary Detection with a Novel Feature
This paper describes our new algorithm for shot boundary detection and its evaluation. We adopt a 2-stage data fusion approach with SVM technique to decide whether a boundary exis...
Kazunori Matsumoto, Masaki Naito, Keiichiro Hoashi...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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Extraction of Outcrop Points from Visual Hulls for Motion Estimation
In this article, we discuss 3D shape reconstruction of an object in a rigid motion with the volume intersection method. When the object moves rigidly, the cameras change their rel...
Masahiro Toyoura, Masaaki Iiyama, Koh Kakusho, Mic...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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A Rank based Metric of Anchor Models for Speaker Verification
In this paper, we present an improved method of anchor models for speaker verification. Anchor model is the method that represent a speaker by his relativity of a set of other sp...
Yingchun Yang, Min Yang, Zhaohui Wu