Social networks such as Facebook witness an explosively growing number of shared photos. People enjoy taking photos of each other in public and private events, upload them, tag each other and continue commenting on each other's photos. These photos are ...

Despite the number of efforts, managing content for media production and distribution can be still considered a time-consuming and hard task. From here derives the need for effective data documentation and retrieval systems. Hyper Media News provides a ...

We present a method combining semantic inferencing and visual analysis for finding automatically media (photos and videos) illustrating events. We report on experiments validating our heuristic for mining media sharing platforms and large event ...

We present a two-step approach to estimate where a given photo or video was taken, using only the tags that a user has assigned to it. In the first step, a language modeling approach is adopted to find the area which most likely contains the geographic ...

Recognizing visual content in unconstrained videos has become a very important problem for many applications. Existing corpora for video analysis lack scale and/or content diversity, and thus limited the needed progress in this critical area. In this ...

We describe an algorithmic and experimental approach to a fundamental problem in field ecology: computer-assisted individual animal identification. We use a database of noisy photographs taken in the wild to build a biometric database of individual ...

The recent growth of multimedia requires an extensive use of metadata for their management. However, a uniform access to metadata is necessary in order to take advantage of them. In this context, several techniques for achieving metadata ...