Semantics-based Image Classification, focusing on answering the following questions:
Salient object detection. What’s a salient object? How to detect the defined salient objects? How to characterize the salient objects?
Automatic semantic image annotation via salient object detection. What are the relationships among the semantic visual concepts and the salient objects? How to evaluate these determined relationships?
Image database management and search engine design. How to manage large-scale image databases? What kind of image search engine can let the naive users to specify their queries?
Semantic Video Classification, Indexing and Retrieval