Today a considerable amount of video data in multimedia databases requires sophisticated
indices for its effective use. Manual indexing is the most effective method to do this, but it is …

to carry out the operation.” Moores was referring to textual document retrieval, but his
description captures what an information retrieval system is expected to do, namely, help a …

(57) ABSTRACT A collaborative information system in which a? rst display device provides a
recommendation of programming content to a viewer of a second display device, where the …

Motion trajectories provide rich spatiotemporal information about an object's activity. This
paper presents novel classification algorithms for recognizing object activity using object …

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Video retrieval is increasingly based on image content. A number of studies on video
retrieval have used low-level pixel content related to statistical moments, shape, colour and …

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This paper describes tools and techniques for representing motion information in the context
of MPEG-7 standardization for multimedia description interfaces. It first gives an overview of …

Temporal data clustering provides underpinning techniques for discovering the intrinsic
structure and condensing information over temporal data. In this paper, we present a …