Real-world actions occur often in crowded, dynamic environments. This poses a difficult challenge for current approaches to video event detection because it is difficult to segmen...
In this paper, we present a novel active contour model, in which the traditional gradient descent optimization is replaced by graph cut optimization. The basic idea is to first de...
Hang Chang, Qing Yang, Manfred Auer, Bahram Parvin
Image authentication is important in content delivery via untrusted intermediaries, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. Many differently encoded versions of the original imag...
In this paper we propose a new joint encryption and lossless compression technique designed for large images 1 . The proposed technique takes advantage of the Mojette transform pr...
Andrew Kingston, Simone Colosimo, Patrizio Campisi...
Modern enterprise applications are forced to deal with unreliable, inconsistent and imprecise information. Probabilistic databases can model such data naturally, but SQL query eva...