With the advances in digital imagery, large accessible data storage, internet repositories, and image applications, information conveyed through images is gaining in importance. T...
Video surrogates are meant to help people quickly make sense of the content of a video before downloading or seeking more detailed information. In this paper we present the result...
The use of visual information derived from accurate lip extraction, can provide features invariant to noise perturbation for speech recognition systems and can be also used in a w...
Motion estimation is a key component of modern video encoding and is very compute-intensive. We present a novel Sensor-assisted Video Encoding (SaVE) method to reduce the computat...
XiaoMing Chen, Zhendong Zhao, Ahmad Rahmati, Ye Wa...
3D reconstruction of urban environments is a widely studied subject since several years, as it can lead to many useful applications: virtual navigation, augmented reality, archite...