The paper Evaluation of Color Descriptors for Object and Scene Recognition by Koen van de Sande, Theo Gevers, and Cees Snoek is available online now. Image category recognition is important to access visual information on the level of objects and scene types. So far, intensity-based descriptors have been widely used. To increase illumination invariance and [...]
During the past two weeks I spent some pleasant time in Germany for a Dagstuhl meeting, the ACM Multimedia PC meeting, and the ICME conference. My personal highlight of all events was the Dagstuhl meeting on Contextual and Social Media Understanding and Usage. This was a very interesting experience. The Dagstuhl concept works as follows: [...]
Together with Alex Hauptmann and Jianmin Li I am organizing a workshop at ACM Multimedia 2008 on Robust Multimedia Learning in Broad Domains. The focus of the workshop is on the unique opportunities, challenges, and solutions for robust multimedia learning across different domains. Media-sharing sites like Flickr YouTube, and Last.fm have brought huge amounts of [...]
Cees Snoek | research on video retrieval