Image and video retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing
research areas in the field of multimedia technology. What are the main challenges in image …

In this paper, a novel approach to video temporal decomposition into semantic units, termed
scenes, is presented. In contrast to previous temporal segmentation approaches that employ …

The human activity that takes place in meeting rooms or classrooms is reflected in a rich
variety of acoustic events (AE), produced either by the human body or by objects handled by …

A shot-based video content analysis method and system is described for providing
automatic recognition of logical story units (LSUs). The method employs vector quantization …

Recent literature advances motion sensors mounted on smartphones and AR/VR headsets
to speech eavesdropping due to their sensitivity to subtle vibrations. The popularity of motion …

Movie trailers, or previews, are an important method of advertising movies. They are
extensively shown before movies in cinemas, as well as on television and increasingly, over …

<? Pub Dtl=""?> Compared with general videos, movies and TV shows attract a significantly
larger portion of people across time and contain very rich and interesting narrative patterns …

Feature extraction and analysis are the foundation of audio classification. At first, audio
features are analyzed deeply, including short-time energy, zero-crossing rate, bandwidth …

The segmentation into acts of a circus performance video is challenging as the content has
similar characteristics to other performance videos but is quite different from movies, TV …

Retrieval in current multimedia databases is usually limited to browsing and searching
based on low-level visual features and explicit textual descriptors. Semantic aspects of …