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VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
From Gaze to Focus of Attention
Identifying human gaze or eye-movement ultimately serves the purpose of identifying an individual’s focus of attention. The knowledge of a person’s object of interest helps us...
Rainer Stiefelhagen, Michael Finke, Jie Yang, Alex...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
General Image Database Model
In this paper we propose a new General Image DataBase (GIDB) model. The model establishes taxonomy based on the systematisation of existing approaches. The GIDB model is based on t...
Peter L. Stanchev
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Relevance Feedback and Term Weighting Schemes for Content-Based Image Retrieval
This paper describes the application of techniques derived from text retrieval research to the content-based querying of image databases. Speci cally, the use of inverted les, fre...
David Squire, Wolfgang Müller 0002, Henning M...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Query Processing and Optimization for Pictorial Query Trees
Abstract. Methods for processing of pictorial queries speci ed by pictorial query trees are presented. Leaves of a pictorial query tree correspond to individual pictorial queries w...
Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Local Color Analysis for Scene Break Detection Applied to TV Commercials Recognition
TV commercials recognition is a need for advertisers in order to check the ful llment of their contracts with TV stations. In this paper we present an approach to this problem base...
Juan María Sánchez, Xavier Binefa, J...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Similarity Search Using Multiple Examples in MARS
Abstract. Unlike traditional database management systems, in multimedia databases that support content-based retrieval over multimedia objects, it is difficult for users to express...
Kriengkrai Porkaew, Sharad Mehrotra, Michael Orteg...
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Generic Viewer Interaction Semantics for Dynamic Virtual Video Synthesis
The FRAMES project is developing a system for video database search, content-based retrieval, and virtual video program synthesis. For dynamic synthesis applications, a video progr...
Craig A. Lindley, Anne-Marie Vercoustre
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Contour-Based Shape Similarity
This paper gives an overview of shape dissimilarity measure properties, such as metric and robustness properties, and of retrieval performance measures. Fifteen shape similarity me...
Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakämper
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Crawling for Images on the WWW
Search engines are useful because they allow the user to nd information of interest from the World-Wide Web. These engines use a crawler to gather information from Web sites. Howev...
Junghoo Cho, Sougata Mukherjea
VISUAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Querying Multimedia Data Sources and Databases
To support the retrieval and fusion of multimedia information from multiple sources and databases, a spatial/temporal query language called ΣQL is proposed. ΣQL is based upon th...
Shi-Kuo Chang, Gennaro Costagliola, Erland Jungert