We introduce a novel computational method for a Mumford-Shah functional, which decomposes a given image into smooth regions separated by closed curves. Casting this as a shape opti...
Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...
With the advance of high-speed network technologies, the availability and popularity of streaming media content over the Internet has grown rapidly in recent years. The delivery a...
Digital video applications exploit the intrinsic structure of video sequences. In order to obtain and represent this structure for video annotation and indexing tasks, the main ini...
Based on the local keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a "bag-of-visualwords (BoW)" and this representation has appeared promising ...
Yu-Gang Jiang, Jun Yang 0003, Chong-Wah Ngo, Alexa...