In this study, we present a systematic evaluation of machine translation methods applied to the image annotation problem. We used the well-studied Corel data set and the broadcast news videos used by TRECVID 2003 as our ...

Given an image (or video clip, or audio song), how do we automatically assign keywords to it? The general problem is to find correlations across the media in a collection of multimedia objects like video clips, with colors, ...

News videos constitute an important source of information for tracking and documenting important events. In these videos, news stories are often accompanied by short video shots that tend to be repeated during the course ...

Detection and removal of commercials plays an important role when searching for important broadcast news video material. In this study, two novel approaches are proposed based on two distinctive characteristics of commercials, ...