This paper describes the Knowledge Base multimedia retrieval system for the TRECVID 2008 evaluation. Our focus this year is on query analysis and the creation of a topic knowledge...
We present an adaptive museum guidance system called PhoneGuide. It uses camera-equipped mobile phones for on-device object recognition in ad-hoc sensor networks and provides locat...
The bag-of-visual-words is a popular representation for images that has proven to be quite effective for automatic annotation. In this paper, we extend this representation in orde...
In previous years, various real-time scheduling techniques have been proposed to improve the performance of a distributed multimedia system. However, not much work has been done o...
This paper presents a beat tracking system that processes acoustic signals of music and recognizes temporal positions of beats in real time. Musical beat tracking is needed by var...