In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
Describing shots through the occurrence of semantic concepts is the first step towards modeling the content of a video semantically. An important challenge is to automatically se...
The two key problems in video transcoding are complexity reduction and quality management. The complexity of H.264 encoding makes complexity reduction even more important. A good ...
Our experiments in TRECVID 2007 include participation in the high-level feature extraction, search, and video summarization tasks, using a common system framework based on multipl...