To support effective multimedia information retrieval, video annotation has become an
important topic in video content analysis. Existing video annotation methods put the focus on …

Improvements in digital technology have made possible the production and distribution of
huge quantities of digital multimedia data. Tools for high-level multimedia documentation …

This paper proposes a generic methodology for the semi-automatic generation of reliable
position annotations for evaluating multi-camera people-trackers on large video data sets …

This paper surveys the approaches to video representation, focusing on semantic analysis
for content-based indexing and retrieval. A problem of adaptive representation of digital …

The dramatic growth of video content over modern media channels (such as the Internet and
mobile phone platforms) directs the interest of media broadcasters towards the topics of …

Semantic video annotation using ontologies has received a large attention from the scientific
community in the recent years. Ontologies are being regarded as an appropriate tool to …

This paper presents the results to evaluate the effectiveness of MPEG 7 color descriptors in
visual surveillance retrieval problems. A set of image sequences of pedestrians entering and …

A system for visual information analysis and classification based on a biologically inspired
visual selective attention model with knowledge structuring is presented. The system is …

Information summarization and retrieval are significant research topics associated with
recent advancements in sensor devices, data compression and storage techniques, and …

One of the challenges in image and video retrieval is the content-based retrieval of images
and videos in the web. Less work has been done in this area, mainly due to scalability …