In this book, the focus is on visual event computing. The events come from video and images. An introduction is presented on what an event is, then an introduction is presented on detecting events from videos and images. Furthermore, event search, retrieval, mining, and reasoning is examined and discussed. As an example, how to use visual event computing in a surveillance environment is propose…
With the development of computing technologies, digital media security becomes an ever increasing issue of daily life. As computer software and hardware evolves and as more of it becomes accessible as an Internet application or service, information security has gone from initially protecting digital images, into the area of multimedia. This area of multimedia includes computer graphics, image…