Television news has become the predominant way of understanding the world around us, but individual news broadcasters can frame or mislead an audience’s understanding of politic...
In this paper, we present our work for automatic generation of textual metadata based on visual content analysis of video news. We present two methods for semantic object detectio...
Text detection is fundamental to video information retrieval and indexing. Existing methods cannot handle well those texts with different contrast or embedded in a complex backgro...
Active learning methods aim to select the most informative unlabeled instances to label first, and can help to focus image or video annotations on the examples that will most impr...
Ranked shot lists from 39 automated LSCOM-Lite concept classifiers are investigated with respect to 24 TRECVID 2006 topics. Selecting the best fitting concept or pair of concepts ...