This paper conducts a formal study of the shot boundary detection problem. First, a general
formal framework of shot boundary detection techniques is proposed. Three critical …

Recent technological advances allow for the collection of massive data in the study of
complex phenomena over time and/or space in various fields. Many of these data involve …

The fast evolution of digital video has brought many new multimedia applications and, as a
consequence, has increased the amount of research into new technologies that aim at …

An ever increasing number of dynamic interactive applications are implemented on portable
consumer electronics. Designers depend largely on operating systems to map these …

Surveillance has been gradually correlating itself to forensic computer technologies. The
use of machine learning techniques made possible the better interpretation of human …

There is a huge amount of duplicated or redundant data in current storage systems. So data
de-duplication, which uses lossless data compression schemes to minimize the duplicated …

Video temporal segmentation is normally the first and important step for content-based video
applications. Many features including the pixel difference, colour histogram, motion, and …

Nowadays, global warming and its resulting environmental changes is a hot topic in different
biology research area. Phenology is one effective way of tracking such environmental …

We apply scale space filtering to thinning of binary sketch images by introducing a
framework for making thinning algorithms robust against noise. Our framework derives …

Video slicing---a variant of slit scanning in photography---extracts a scan line from a video
frame and successively adds that line to a composite image over time. The composite image …