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DAGM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Multiple Instance Boosting for Face Recognition in Videos
For face recognition from video streams often cues such as transcripts, subtitles or on-screen text are available. This information could be very valuable for improving the recogni...
Paul Wohlhart, Martin Köstinger, Peter M. Rot...
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Novasky: Cinematic-quality VoD in a P2P storage cloud
—In this paper, we present Novasky, a real-world Video-on-Demand (VoD) system capable of delivering cinematicquality video streams to end users. The foundation of the Novasky des...
Fangming Liu, Shijun Shen, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hao ...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
A probabilistic pixel-based approach to detect humans in video streams
Human detection in video streams is an important task in many applications including video surveillance. Surprisingly, only few papers have been devoted to this topic. This paper ...
Sébastien Piérard, Antoine Lejeune, ...
TNN
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Video Time Encoding Machines
—We investigate architectures for time encoding and time decoding of visual stimuli such as natural and synthetic video streams (movies, animation). The architecture for time enc...
Aurel A. Lazar, Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis
TMC
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Flexible Broadcasting of Scalable Video Streams to Heterogeneous Mobile Devices
—We study the scalable video broadcasting problem in mobile TV broadcast networks, where each TV channel is encoded into a scalable video stream with multiple layers, and several...
Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda
ICC
2009
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Scalable Video-On-Demand Streaming in Mobile Wireless Hybrid Networks
Video-on-demand service in wireless networks is one important step to achieving the goal of providing video services anywhere anytime. Typically, carrier mobile networks are used t...
Tai T. Do, Kien A. Hua, Alexander J. Aved, Fuyu Li...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Layered Internet Video Engineering (LIVE): Network-Assisted Bandwidth Sharing and Transient Loss Protection for Scalable Video S
—This paper presents a novel scheme, Layered Internet Video Engineering (LIVE), in which network nodes feed back virtual congestion levels to video senders to assist both media-a...
Xiaoqing Zhu, Rong Pan, Nandita Dukkipati, Vijay S...
MMS
2000
13 years 4 months ago
Failure Recovery Algorithms for Multimedia Servers
In this paper, we present two novel disk failure recovery methods that utilize the inherent characteristics of video streams for efficient recovery. Whereas the first method explo...
Prashant J. Shenoy, Harrick M. Vin
ETT
2000
103views Education» more  ETT 2000»
13 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Rate Shaping on MPEG-2 Video Streams for Bandwidth Saving on a Faded Satellite Channel
In a previous work, we studied how to send a video stream over a noisy satellite channel using the scalability features of the MPEG-2 standard. The base and the enhancement flows w...
Nedo Celandroni, Erina Ferro, Francesco Potorti, A...
TIP
2008
344views more  TIP 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
A Self-Organizing Approach to Background Subtraction for Visual Surveillance Applications
Detection of moving objects in video streams is the first relevant step of information extraction in many computer vision applications. Aside from the intrinsic usefulness of being...
Lucia Maddalena, Alfredo Petrosino