In the area of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), great technical progress has been made since this discipline started to mature in the late 1990s. Yet, despite the almost universa...
Every day the global media system produces an abundance of news stories, all containing many references to people. An important task is to automatically generate reliable lists of ...
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...
In this paper, we propose a new method to model the manifold of handwritten Chinese characters using the local discriminant projection. We utilize a cascade framework that combine...
Embedded processors are making it possible for common appliances, such as cable boxes, microwaves and fax machines, to provide even more functionality. Unfortunately, as these app...