In this paper we address the problem of detecting shots of subjects that are interviewed in news sequences. This is useful since usually these kinds of scenes contain important an...
—Salient areas in natural scenes are generally regarded as areas which the human eye will typically focus on, and finding these areas is the key step in object detection. In com...
We describe a method for obtaining the principal objects, characters and scenes in a video by measuring the reoccurrence of spatial configurations of viewpoint invariant features....
Night surveillance is a challenging task because of low brightness, low contrast, low Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and low appearance information. Most existing models for night su...
Gradual transitions represent a challenging problem for temporal segmentation of video. Here we present two new features for detecting these. Recently, Ngo et al. set out a method...