The retrieval of videos of interest from large video collections is a main open problem which calls for the definition of new video content characterization techniques in term of ...
We use rhetorical annotations to specify a generation process that can assemble meaningful video sequences with a communicative goal and an argumentative progression. Our annotati...
This paper presents techniques for multimedia annotation and their application to video summarization and translation. Our tool for annotation allows users to easily create annota...
We propose a novel semantic video summarization framework, which generates video skimmings that guarantee both the balanced content coverage and the visual coherence. First, we co...
Activity recognition in video is dominated by low- and mid-level features, and while demonstrably capable, by nature, these features carry little semantic meaning. Inspired by the...