With the rapidly growing use of the audio and multimedia information over the Internet, the technology for retrieving speech information using voice queries is becoming more and mo...
Avari is a virtual receptionist for the Computer Science department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her components include background subtraction to detect a per...
In this paper we introduce a novel contextual fusion method to improve the detection scores of semantic concepts in images and videos. Our method consists of three phases. For eac...
The goal of this work is to improve the accuracy (precision and recall) and communication effectiveness of a database system response to a user information request, by utilizing a...
This work addresses the soundtrack indexing of multimedia documents. We present and merge two audio classification tools that we have developed. The first one, a speech music clas...