The evolution of agriculture towards intensive farming leads to an increasing demand for
animal identification associated with high traceability, driven by the need for quality control …

Human face detection plays an important role in applications such as video surveillance,
human computer interface, face recognition, and face image database management. We …

In this paper we present a comprehensive and critical survey of face detection algorithms.
Face detection is a necessary first-step in face recognition systems, with the purpose of …

Goal: The purpose of this paper is to develop a classification method that combines both
spectral and spatial information for distinguishing cancer from healthy tissue on …

Advances in networking principles may indeed influence many kinds of monitoring and
control systems in the most dramatic way. Sensor network and configuration (SNC) falls …

Related US Application Data The system of the present invention allows a user to generate
(60) Provisional application No. 60/506,303, filed on Sep. a representation of time-based …

(57) ABSTRACT A meeting recorder captures multimodal information of a meeting.
Subsequent analysis of the information produces scores indicative of visually and aurally …

Skin detection is the process of finding skin-colored pixels and regions in an image or a
video. This process is typically used as a preprocessing step to find regions that potentially …

Skin detection is employed in tasks like face detection and tracking, naked people detection,
hand detection and tracking, people retrieval in databases and Internet, etc. However, skin …

Video content classification and retrieval is a necessary tool in the current merging of
entertainment and information media. With the advent of broadband networking, every …