Advances in the media and entertainment industries, including streaming audio and digital TV, present new challenges for managing and accessing large audio-visual collections. Current content management systems support ...

It is important for practical application to design an effective and efficient metric for video quality. The most reliable way is by subjective evaluation. Thus, to design an objective metric by simulating human visual ...

A video-based tracking system for airport surveillance, composed by modules performing vision tasks at different levels, is adapted for operational conditions by means of Evolution Strategies (ES). An optimization procedure ...

The relation between information science and library science has been debated for decades, and even attempts at utilizing methods generally acknowledged as robust for the purpose of mapping research fields have yielded ...

The multidisciplinary nature of Brain Computer Interfaces technologies demands scientists and researchers in the area to develop a homogeneous framework and classification of the existent BCI technologies in order to ...

This paper aims to bridge human hearing and vision from the viewpoint of database search for images or music. The semantic content of an image can be illustrated with music or conversely images can be associated with a ...

Visual search reranking involves an optimization process that uses visual content to recover the 'genuine' ranking list from the helpful but noisy one generated by textual search. This paper presents an evolutionary approach, ...

Spiral Architecture (SA) is a novel image structure which has hexagons but not squares as the basic elements. Apart from many other advantages in image processing, SA has shown two unbeatable characters that have potential ...