Abstract. We present a novel video retrieval system that accepts annotated freehand sketches as queries. Existing sketch based video retrieval (SBVR) systems enable the appearance ...
Lip reading provides useful information in speech perception and language understanding, especially when the auditory speech is degraded. However, many current automatic lip readi...
Uwe Meier, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Wai...
A novel directionally adaptive image resolution enhancement method is proposed. The method uses a multiple-direction wavelet transform, called directionlets, to efficiently extrac...
We present a new approach to model visual scenes in image collections, based on local invariant features and probabilistic latent space models. Our formulation provides answers to...
Pedro Quelhas, Florent Monay, Jean-Marc Odobez, Da...
Several problems in text categorization are too hard to be solved by standard bag-of-words representations. Work in kernel-based learning has approached this problem by (i) consid...