Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
Abstract. A major problem in surveillance systems is the storage requirements for video archival; videos are recorded continuously for long periods of time, resulting in large amou...
—In this paper, we present a novel method to recognize characters with severe perspective distortion using hash tables and perspective invariants. The proposed algorithm consists...
This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
In this paper, we present a methodology to estimate a detailed state of a video scene involving multiple humans and vehicles. In order to annotate and retrieve videos containing a...