We have been witnessing a rapid explosion of video data in richer and broader widely
accessed media spaces. Video itself is a very rich medium, including pictures, text and audio …

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems normally return the retrieval results according
to the similarity between features extracted from the query image and candidate images. In …

Spatio-temporal saliency detection has gradually gained much attention in various computer
vision applications such as intelligent video advertising and visual tracking. In this paper, we …

In this paper, mobile-agent-based information-driven multiresolution algorithm (MAIDM) is
presented for target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSN), in order to provide better …

Cultural heritage has been gaining more importance in the recent years in combination with
sophisticated yet effective computer vision techniques. As a consequence, archaeological …

The management and exchange of multimedia data is challenging due to the variety of
formats, standards and intended applications. In addition, production of multimedia data is …

For Web image retrieval, two basic methods can be used for representing and indexing Web
images. One is based on the associate text around the Web images; and the other utilizes …

In this thesis, image and video analysis algorithms are developed. Tracking moving objects
in video have important applications ranging from CCTV (Closed Circuit Television Systems) …

We conduct an artificial language learning experiment on Chinese participants, and
discover that these non-alphabetic language users can grasp compositional structures in …

Image search engines attempt to give fast and accurate access to the wide range of the
huge amount images available on the Internet. There have been a number of efforts to build …