In order to summarize a video consisting of a sequence of different activities, there are three fundamental problems: tracking the objects of interest, detecting the activity chan...
"Red-eye" is a phenomenon that causes the eyes of flash photography subjects to appear unnaturally reddish in color. Though commercial solutions exist for red-eye correc...
This paper presents a morphological scale-space approach to the problem of feature extraction. The method relies on two steps: a hierarchical simplification step based on pyramids...
A search engine evaluation model that considers over seventy performance and feature parameters is presented. The design of a web-based system that allows the user to tailor the m...
We present a continuously adaptive, continuous query (CACQ) implementation based on the eddy query processing framework. We show that our design provides significant performance b...
Samuel Madden, Mehul A. Shah, Joseph M. Hellerstei...