The usefulness of networks of surveillance cameras is primarily limited by the demand
placed on human supervisors to monitor many real time video feeds simultaneously. The …

Written by leading researchers, the 2nd Edition of the Dictionary of Computer Vision & Image
Processing is a comprehensive and reliable resource which now provides explanations of …

The aim of this chapter is to explore directions for advancing multimodal analysis through
the use of digital technology which is the research agenda currently underway in the …

The paper discusses the challenges faced by researchers in develo** effective digital
interfaces for analyzing the meaning-making processes of multimodal phenomena. The …

Video summarization is the process of refining the original video into a more concise form
without losing valuable information. Both efficient storage and extraction of valuable …

The subject invention relates to a system and method for Video Summarization, and more
specifically to a system for segmenting and classifying data from a video in order to create a …

Advances in multimedia acquisition and storage technology have led to tremendous growth
in very large and detailed multimedia databases. If these multimedia files are analyzed …

In this paper we present an integration of several user and resource-related factors for the
design of dynamic adaptation techniques. Our first contribution is an original reinforcement …

Modern developments in digital media technologies has made transmitting and storing large
amounts of multi/rich media data (eg text, images, music, video and their combination) more …

Automatic media content analysis and understanding for efficient topic searching and
browsing are current challenges in the management of e-learning content repositories. This …