Abstract. A novel approach to object-based video indexing and retrieval is presented, employing an object segmentation algorithm for the real-time, unsupervised segmentation of com...
The goal of this work is to improve the accuracy (precision and recall) and communication effectiveness of a database system response to a user information request, by utilizing a...
The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...
Given a query on the PASCAL database maintained by the INIST, we design user interfaces to visualize and wo types of graphs extracted from abstracts: 1) the graph of all associati...
This paper presents an automatic efficient method to fit a statistical deformation model of the human face to 3D scan data. In a global to local fitting scheme, the shape parameter...