Video object (VO) extraction is of great importance in multimedia processing. In recent years approaches have been proposed to deal with VO extraction as a classification problem....
This paper proposes a new stopping criterion for automatic image segmentation based on region merging. The criterion is dependent on image content itself and when combined with the...
A real-time audio segmentation and indexing scheme is presented in this paper. Audio recordings are segmented and classified into basic audio types such as silence, speech, music,...
Tools for automatic image understanding for managing operator workloads are essential. One common task for image analysts is the scanning large collections of real-time images loo...
This paper describes a multimedia, multilingual and multimodal research system called CIMWOS (Combined IMage and WOrd Spotting). CIMWOS incorporates an extensive set of multimedia...
Nick Hatzigeorgiu, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Harris P...