Discovering thematic objects in image collections and videos

• Main Authors: Katsaggelos, Aggelos K., Yuan, Junsong, Zhao, Gangqiang, Fu, Yun, Li, Zhu, Wu, Ying
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98874; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13463
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Given a collection of images or a short video sequence, we define a thematic object as the key object that frequently appears and is the representative of the visual contents. Successful discovery of the thematic object is helpful for object search and tagging, video summarization and understanding,...