This a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Leo Liberti, Philippe Baptiste and Daniel Krob and defended on 18 June 2009 at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. ...
Abstract--The Distributed Stochastic Algorithm (DSA), Distributed Breakout Algorithm (DBA), and variations such as Distributed Simulated Annealing (DSAN), MGM-1, and DisPeL, are di...
Video retargeting is the task of fitting standard-sized video into arbitrary screen. A compelling retargeting attempts to preserve most visual information of original video as wel...
Image annotation has been an active research topic in the recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and web/database image search. In this paper...
Image object retrieval – locating image occurrences of specific objects in large-scale image collections – is essential for manipulating the sheer amount of photos. Current s...