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There is a large and rapidly increasing amount of video data on the Internet and in personal or organizational collections. Fast and accurate video search emerges to be an important issue. The need and main technical challenges for video retrieval are similar to those for the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) problem. Lack of meaningful and comprehensive text annotation means that an approach based...
An audio fingerprint is a compact yet very robust representation of the perceptually relevant parts of an audio signal. It can be used for content-based audio identification, even when the audio is severely distorted. Audio compression changes the fingerprint slightly. We show that these small fingerprint differences due to compression can be used to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the...
The nursing care quality improvement is very important in the medical field. Currently, nursing-care freestyle texts (nursing-care data) are collected from many hospitals in Japan by using Web applications and stored into the database. Some nursing-care experts evaluate the collected data to improve nursing care quality. For evaluating the nursing-care data, experts need to read all freestyle texts...
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