We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of
lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper …

The explosive growth and widespread accessibility of community-contributed media content
on the Internet have led to a surge of research activity in multimedia search. Approaches that …

Large volumes of videos are continuously recorded from cameras deployed for traffic control
and surveillance with the goal of answering “after the fact” queries: identify video frames with …

We address the challenge of sentiment analysis from visual content. In contrast to existing
methods which infer sentiment or emotion directly from visual low-level features, we propose …

Dense video captioning is a newly emerging task that aims at both localizing and describing
all events in a video. We identify and tackle two challenges on this task, namely,(1) how to …

The rapid growth of user-generated videos on the Internet has intensified the need for text-
based video retrieval systems. Traditional methods mainly favor the concept-based …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Video indexing and retrieval have a wide spectrum of promising applications, motivating the
interest of researchers worldwide. This paper offers a tutorial and an overview of the …

Ad-hoc video search (AVS) is an important yet challenging problem in multimedia retrieval.
Different from previous concept-based methods, we propose a fully deep learning method …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …