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

Extending beyond the boundaries of science, art, and culture, content-based multimedia
information retrieval provides new paradigms and methods for searching through the myriad …

Nowadays, more and more images are available. However, to find a required image for an
ordinary user is a challenging task. Large amount of researches on image retrieval have …

Organizing digital photograph collections according to events such as holiday gatherings or
vacations is a common practice among photographers. To support photographers in this …

Although events are ubiquitous in multimedia, no common notion of events has emerged.
Events appear in multimedia presentation formats, programming frameworks, and …

The amount of user-generated multimedia content (UGC) has increased rapidly in recent
years due to the ubiquitous availability of smartphones, digital cameras, and affordable …

Events are real-world occurrences that unfold over space and time. Event mining from
multimedia streams improves the access and reuse of large media collections, and it has …

In this paper, we have proposed a novel framework for mining multilevel image semantics
via hierarchical classification. To bridge the semantic gap more successfully, salient objects …

The explosive growth of image data leads to the research and development of Content-
Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems. CBIR systems extract and retrieve images by their …

Recognition-based visual authentication schemes use a variety of different kinds of images.
These mechanisms have now matured sufficiently that we should start considering tailoring …