Due to the rapidly increasing availability of audio files on the Web, it is relevant to augment search engines with advanced audio search functionality. In this context, the rank...
Maria M. Ruxanda, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Christian...
Near-duplicate image detection is a critical task in copyright protection. More challenging than the common similarity search, this task requires not only the retrieval of the top...
The automatic detection of semantic events in users’ image and video collections is an important technique for content management and retrieval. In this paper we propose a novel...
Image matching is a fundamental task of many problems in computer vision. This paper presents a novel local feature descriptor based on the gradient distance and orientation histo...
In this paper we describe a system for automatic detection and recognition of trademarks in sports videos. We propose a compact representation of trademarks based on SIFT feature ...
Lamberto Ballan, Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo,...