Blocking artifact is the most prevailing degradation caused by block-based DCT coding techniques under low bit-rate conditions. To alleviate blockings perceptually, it is desirabl...
The Feature Vector approach is one of the most popular schemes for managing multimedia data. For many data types such as audio, images, or 3D models, an abundance of different Fea...
With a large number of surveillance cameras, it is not an easy task to determine which camera should be monitored and which region of the camera images should be checked so that al...
In many visual tracking and surveillance systems, it is important to initialize a background model using a training video sequence which may include foreground objects. In such a c...
In this paper, we present a new approach for remote visualization of large 3D cities. Our approach is based on expressive rendering (also known as Non-Photorealistic Rendering), a...