We give a fast rejection scheme that is based on image segments and demonstrate it on the canonical example of face detection. However, instead of focusing on the detection step w...
—This paper presents a novel hybrid method for content based visual information retrieval (CBIR) that combines shape analysis of objects in image with their automatic indexing by...
W e introduce a novel view-based object representation, called the saliency map graph (SMG), which captures the salient regions of an object view at multiple scales using a wavele...
Sound files on the World Wide Web are accessed from web pages. To date, this relationship has not been explored extensively in the MIR literature. This paper details a series of ...
Abstract. Modularity, the recently defined quality measure for clusterings, has attained instant popularity in the fields of social and natural sciences. We revisit the rationale b...