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TMM
2002
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Foveated video quality assessment
Most image and video compression algorithms that have been proposed to improve picture quality relative to compression efficiency have either been designed based on objective crite...
Sanghoon Lee, Marios S. Pattichis, Alan C. Bovik
TMM
2002
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Staggered push - a linearly scalable architecture for push-based parallel video servers
With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...
Jack Y. B. Lee
TMM
2002
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On clustering and retrieval of video shots through temporal slices analysis
Based on the analysis of temporal slices, we propose novel approaches for clustering and retrieval of video shots. Temporal slices are a set of two
Chong-Wah Ngo, Ting-Chuen Pong, HongJiang Zhang
TMM
2002
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A jointly optimal fractal/DCT compression scheme
In this paper a hybrid fractal and Discrete Cosine transform (DCT) coder is developed. Drawing on the ability of DCT to remove inter-pixel redundancies and on the ability of fracta...
Gerry Melnikov, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
TMM
2002
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A model for secure multimedia document database system in a distributed environment
Abstract--The Internet provides a universal platform for largescale distribution of information and supports inter-organizational services, system integration, and collaboration. U...
James B. D. Joshi, Zhaohui Kevin Li, Husni Fahmi, ...
TMM
2002
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Object tracking using the Gabor wavelet transform and the golden section algorithm
This paper presents an object tracking method for object-based video processing which uses a two-dimensional (2-D) Gabor wavelet transform (GWT) and a 2-D golden section algorithm....
Chao He, Yuan F. Zheng, Stanley C. Ahalt
TMM
2002
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Power-spectrum condition for energy-efficient watermarking
This paper presents a model for watermarking and some attacks on watermarks. Given the watermarked signal, the so-called Wiener attack performs minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) es...
Jonathan K. Su, Bernd Girod
TMM
2002
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Image segmentation and similarity of color-texture objects
Abstract-- We aim for content-based image retrieval of textured objects in natural scenes under varying illumination and viewing conditions. To achieve this, image retrieval is bas...
Theo Gevers
TMM
2002
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Accommodating hybrid retrieval in a comprehensive video database management system
A comprehensive video retrieval system should be able to accommodate and utilize various (complementary) description data in facilitating effective retrieval. In this paper, we ad...
Shermann S.-M. Chan, Qing Li, Yi Wu, Yueting Zhuan...
TMM
2002
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Toward assessing subjective quality of service of conversational mobile multimedia applications delivered over the internet: a m
Abstract--Some recent publications have proposed methodologies to assess the performance of multimedia services in introducing subjective estimate of the end-to-end quality of vari...
Pascal Dugenie, Alistair Munro, M. H. Barton