In this paper we present a new descriptor for spatial distribution of motion activity in video sequences. We construct a histogram of areas of distinct regions (or "blobs&quo...
We propose a set of optimization techniques, collectively called Wireless SOAP (WSOAP), to compress SOAP messages transmitted across a wireless link. The Name Space Equivalency te...
Online detection of video clips that present previously unseen events in a video stream is still an open challenge to date. For this online new event detection (ONED) task, existi...
AnswerBus News Engine1 is a question answering system using the contents of CNN Web site2 as its knowledge base. Comparing to other question answering systems including its previo...
— We propose an iconic indexing of images to be exposed on the Web. This should be accomplished by “Keypics”, i.e. auxiliary, simplified pictures referring to the geometrica...
Andrea Cerri, Massimo Ferri, Patrizio Frosini, Dan...