We present a system that detects human falls in the home environment, distinguishing them from competing noise, by using only the audio signal from a single far-field microphone....
Semantic concept detection has emerged as an intriguing topic in multimedia research recently. The ability to interpret high-level semantics from low-level features has been the l...
Lin Lin, Guy Ravitz, Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen
Visual tracking is a challenging problem, as an object may change its appearance due to viewpoint variations, illumination changes, and occlusion. Also, an object may leave the fie...
This paper presents an automatic video genre categorization scheme based on the hierarchical ontology on video genres. Ten computable spatio-temporal features are extracted to dis...
Xun Yuan, Wei Lai, Tao Mei, Xian-Sheng Hua, Xiuqin...
The problem of identifying approximately duplicate records in databases is an essential step for data cleaning and data integration processes. Most existing approaches have relied...