A robust method for the localization of frames within document images is presented. It aims at detecting regions delimited by closed polygonal lines or edges in complex color, gra...
Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...
In this paper we describe a distributed retrieval system for medical images based on a Human Centered Virtual Machine (HCVM). HCVM layered architecture allows indexing and retrieva...
R. Castelletti, Ernesto Damiani, Giovanni Righini,...
Near-duplicate keyframes (NDK) play a unique role in large-scale video search, news topic detection and tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel NDK retrieval approach by explo...
Nearest Neighbor (NN) retrieval is a crucial tool of many computer vision tasks. Since the brute-force naive search is too time consuming for most applications, several tailored d...