In the current Web scenario a video browsing tool that produces on-the-fly storyboards is
more and more a need. Video summary techniques can be helpful but, due to their long …

The spoken language is the most natural interface for a human being and, thanks to the
scientific-technological advances made in recent decades, nowadays we have voice …

Recent advances in technology have made tremen-dous amount of multimedia information
available to the general population. A practical way of dealing with this new scenario is to …

The amount of digital material in video lecture archives is growing rapidly, causing the
search&retrieval process to be time-consuming and almost impractical. Indeed, after the …

Learning is considered one of the most important activities for the human being, and many
educational institutes are trying to improve the engagement with students through the …

The younger generations are very focused on what surrounds them and on what happens to
their friends, but they are hardly interested in written-based historical contents. This creates …

The popular k-means algorithm is used to discover clusters in vector data automatically. We
present three accelerated algorithms that compute exactly the same clusters much faster …

Streaming music platforms have changed the way people listen to music. Today, we can
access to millions of songs with a simple internet-connected device. The drawback is that …

The wide availability of video lectures within digital archives is causing significant problems
to video providers. Indeed, students search for very specific contents and the few minutes of …

The recent progress of digital media has stimulated the creation, storage and distribution of
data, such as digital videos, generating a large volume of data and requiring efficient …