The attentive region extraction is a challenging issue for semantic interpretation of image and video content. The successful attentive region extraction greatly facilitates image...
Information linkage is becoming more and more important in this digital age. In this paper, we propose a concept tracking method, which links the news stories with the same topic ...
Conventional operators for data retrieval are either based on exact matching or on total order relationship among elements. Neither of them is appropriate to manage complex data, s...
Most multimedia information retrieval systems use an indexing scheme to speed up similarity search. The index aims to discard large portions of the data collection at query time. ...
Images can affect people on an emotional level. Since the emotions that arise in the viewer of an image are highly subjective, they are rarely indexed. However there are situation...