Social tagging provides valuable and crucial information for large-scale web image retrieval. It is ontology-free and easy to obtain; however, irrelevant tags frequently appear, a...
Abstract. Today, digital libraries more and more have to rely on semantic techniques during the workflows of metadata generation, search and navigational access. But, due to the st...
We investigate the challenging issue of joint audio-visual analysis of generic videos targeting at semantic concept detection. We propose to extract a novel representation, the Sh...
Wei Jiang, Courtenay V. Cotton, Shih-Fu Chang, Dan...
Today many kinds of postprocessing are used in digital TV receivers or multimedia terminals for video signals to enhance the picture quality. To achieve this the properties of hum...
Gain control by divisive inhibition, a.k.a. divisive normalization, has been proposed to be a general mechanism throughout the visual cortex. We explore in this study the statisti...