This paper presents a fast and robust sprite generation algorithm for MPEG-4 video coding. Our contributions consist of two aspects. Firstly, a fast and robust Global Motion Estima...
The N-Normalization is an efficient method for normalizing a given similarity computed among multimedia objects. It can be considered for clustering and kernel enhancement. Howev...
Abstract--This paper addresses the problem of 3-D reconstruction of nonrigid objects from uncalibrated image sequences. Under the assumption of affine camera and that the nonrigid ...
Domain-specific knowledge of paintings defines a wide range of concepts for annotation and flexible retrieval of paintings. In this work, we employ the ontology of artistic concept...
This paper proposes a hash function family based on feature vocabularies and investigates the application in building indexes for image search. Each hash function is associated wi...