Tennis Ball Tracking Using a Two-Layered Data Association Approach
Ball tracking is a key technology in processing and analyzing a ball game. Because of the complexity of visual scenes, a large number of objects are often selected as candidates for the ball, leading to incorrect identification, and conversely, the true ...
Towards Practical Self-Embedding for JPEG-Compressed Digital Images
This paper deals with the design of a practical self-recovery mechanism for lossy compressed JPEG images. We extend a recently proposed model of the content reconstruction problem based on digital fountain codes to take into account the impact of emerging ...
Non-Rigid Structure-From-Motion on Degenerate Deformations With Low-Rank Shape Deformation Model
Non-rigid structure-from-motion (NRSfM) is the process of recovering time-varying 3D structures and poses of a deformable object from an uncalibrated monocular video sequence. Currently, most NRSfM algorithms utilize a non- degenerate assumption for non-...
Audio Assisted Robust Visual Tracking With Adaptive Particle Filtering
The problem of tracking multiple moving speakers in indoor environments has received much attention. Earlier techniques were based purely on a single modality, e.g., vision. Recently, the fusion of multi-modal information has been shown to be instrumental ...
Optimized Comics-Based Storytelling for Temporal Image Sequences
We propose a system to transform any temporal image sequence into a comics-based presentation, as an effective and interesting storytelling manner. Three main components, including page allocation, layout selection, and speech balloon placement, are ...
Multimedia Summarization for Social Events in Microblog Stream
Microblogging services have revolutionized the way people exchange information. Confronted with the ever-increasing numbers of social events and the corresponding microblogs with multimedia contents, it is desirable to provide visualized summaries to help ...
Unreeling Xunlei Kankan: Understanding Hybrid CDN-P2P Video-on-Demand Streaming
The hybrid architecture of content distribution network (CDN) and peer to peer (P2P) is promising in providing online streaming media services. In this paper, we conducted a comprehensive measurement study on Kankan, one of the leading VoD streaming ...
Dynamic Time Warping for Music Conducting Gestures Evaluation
Musical performance by an ensemble of performers often requires a conductor. This paper presents a tool to aid the study of basic conducting gestures, also known as meter- mimicking gestures, performed by beginners. It is based on the automatic detection ...
Corrections to “Exploiting Web Images for Semantic Video Indexing Via Robust Sample-Specific Loss” [Oct 14 1677-1689]
In the above paper [ibid, vol. 16, no. 6, p. 1679, Oct. 2014], the sentence "Yang et al. [?] integrated semisupervised learning and transfer learning techniques to exploit manually-labeled images for video tagging" should have appeared as "Yang et al. [34]...
Corrections to “Novel Efficient HEVC Decoding Solution on General-Purpose Processors” [Nov 14 1915-1928]
In the above paper [ibid., vol. 16, no. 7, p. 1915, Nov. 2014], the sentence "has provided HEVC service to over 1500 million people in China via the Xunlei Kankan video client" should have appeared as "has provided HEVC services to over 150 million people ...
