We compare standard global IR searching with user-centric localized techniques to address the database selection problem. We conduct a series of experiments to compare the retriev...
A new method for detecting shot boundaries in video sequences using metrics based on information theory is proposed. The method relies on the mutual information and the joint entr...
Zuzana Cernekova, Christophoros Nikou, Ioannis Pit...
This paper is concerned with the topic of personalized news assembly at the set-top box, based on augmented video. This is video complemented with additional information that is s...
Norman Haas, Ruud M. Bolle, Nevenka Dimitrova, Ang...
A novel paradigm for information visualization in high dynamic range images is presented in this paper. These images, real or synthetic, have luminance with typical ranges many or...
Fingerprint enhancement is a critical step in automatic fingerprint verification system. Most of the existing enhancement uses a set of contextual filters to enhance fingerprint. ...