Multimedia databases deal with storage and retrieval of complex descriptors of image contents, called features. Traditional techniques consider features as “black boxes,” ofte...
When querying a news video archive, the users are interested in retrieving precise answers in the form of a summary that best answers the query. However, current video retrieval s...
It is now accepted that the most eective video shot retrieval is based on indexing and retrieving clips using multiple, parallel modalities such as text-matching, image-matching a...
Feature selection for video retrieval applications is impractical with existing techniques, because of their high time complexity and their failure on the relatively sparse trainin...
We consider the problem of geometrical surface reconstruction from one or several images using learned shape models. While humans can effortlessly retrieve 3D shape information, t...