Detecting the presence of musical sounds in broadcast audio is important for content-based indexing and retrieval of auditory and visual information in radio and TV programs. In t...
In this paper, we study the problem of the fast selection of video objects, as an aid for the efficient semi-automatic annotation of video programs. In a regular system, the user ...
This paper proposes an adaptive system for video news story tracking based on the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD). When an interesting story appears in the news, it is flagged man...
Multimodal surveillance systems using visible/IR cameras and other sensors are widely deployed today for security purpose, particularly when subjects are at a large distance. Howe...
Noise not only degrades the visual quality of video contents, but also significantly affects the coding efficiency. Based on the temporal linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE...