Analysis, Retrieval and Delivery of Multimedia Content (eBook)

Dr. Adami is a professor at University of Brescia. Dr. Adami has published over 30 papers. Dr. Cavallaro is a professor at Queen Mary University of London. Dr. Leonardi and Dr. Migliorati are professors at the University of Brescia.

Part I: Multimedia Content Analysis.- On the Use of Audio Events for Improving Video Scene Segmentation.- k-NN Boosting Prototype Learning for Object Classification.- Part II: Motion and Activity Analysis.- Semi-Automatic Object Tracking in Video Sequences by Extension.- A Multi-resolution Particle Filter Tracking with a Dual Consistency Check for Model Update in a Multi-Camera Environment.- Activity Detection Using Regular Expressions.- Shape Adaptive Mean Shift Object Tracking Using Gaussian Mixture Models.- Part III: High-level Descriptors and Video Retrieval.- Forensic Reasoning upon Pre-obtained Surveillance Metadata Using Uncerttain Spatio-temporal Rules and Subjective Logic.-  AIR: Architecture for Interoperable Retrieval on Distributed and Heterogeneous Multimedia Repositories.- Local Invariant Feature Tracks for High-level Video Feature Extraction.- Part IV: 3D and Multi-view.- A New Evaluation Criterion for Point Correspondence in Stereo Images.- Local Homography Estimation Using Keypoint Descriptors.- A Cognitive Source Coding Scheme for Multiple Description 3D-TV Transmission.- Part V: Multimedia Delivery.- An Efficient Prefetching Strategy for Remote Browsing of JPEG 2000 Image Sequences.- Comparing Spatial Masking Modeling in Just-Noticeable Distortion-Controlled H.264/AVC Video Controlling.- Coherent Video Reconstruction with Motion Estimation at the Decoder.