Sign board detection is important for such computer vision applications as video surveillance and content based visual information retrieval. Previous researches on this topic foc...
Music thumbnailing (or music summarization) aims at finding the most representative part of a song, which can be used for web browsing, web searching and music recommendation. Thr...
Color is very useful in locating and recognizing objects that occur in artificial environments. The color histogram has shown its efficiency and advantages as a general tool for v...
Image auto-annotation, i.e., the association of words to whole images, has attracted considerable attention. In particular, unsupervised, probabilistic latent variable models of t...
Many Internet-based applications have adopted XML as the standard data exchange format. These XML data are typically stored in its native form, thus creating the need to present XM...