New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7, compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve and prese...
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fern&aa...
The automatic analysis of social interactions is attracting significant interest in the multimedia community. This work addresses one of the most important aspects of the problem...
Sarah Favre, Alfred Dielmann, Alessandro Vinciarel...
In this paper, we present Scene Structural Matrix (SSM) and apply it to the retrieval of landscape images. The SSM captures the overall structural characteristics of the scene by i...
This paper presents a novel approach to representing 2-d shapes that adaptively models different portions of the shape at different resolutions, having higher resolution where it ...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, ...
We describe a genetic segmentation algorithm for video. This algorithm operates on segments of a string representation. It is similar to both classical genetic algorithms that ope...
Patrick Chiu, Andreas Girgensohn, Wolfgang Polak, ...