This report describes the details of our system for copy detection task in TRECVID 2009. We submitted 4 runs, 2 for video-only queries and 2 for video + audio queries. Details are listed below. Each group is with same technique but different parameters. NJU.v.balanced.1, NJU.v.nofa.1: SURF feature is used. Videos are indexed with feature points. We adopt LSH as indexing technique. NJU.m.balance...

The ability to predict terrestrial evapotranspiration (E) is limited by the complexity of rate-limiting pathways as water moves through the soil, vegetation (roots, xylem, stomata), canopy air space, and the atmospheric boundary layer. The impossibility of specifying the numerous parameters required to model this process in full spatial detail has necessitated spatially upscaled models that dep...

In this paper we propose a robust object-based watermarking method, in which the watermark is embedded into the middle frequencies band of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) magnitude of the selected object region, altogether with the Speeded Up Robust Feature (SURF) algorithm to allow the correct watermark detection, even if the watermarked image has been distorted. To recognize the selected...

To quantify the effect of wave breaking turbulence on sediment transport in the nearshore, the vertical distribution of time-averaged suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in the surf zone was parameterized in terms of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) at different cross-shore locations, including the bar crest, bar trough, and inner surf zone. Using data from a large-scale laboratory experim...

BACKGROUND Animals moving through air or water toward a goal frequently must contend with fluid currents, which can drift the actual path of the animal away from the direction of heading. Whether, and to what degree, animals compensate for currents depends on the species and environmental context, but plays an important role in the movement ecology of the species. In this paper, flocks of surf ...

This paper compares Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT), speeded up robust feature (SURF), and scale invariant feature transformation (SIFT) features applied to bronchoscope tracking. In our study, we first use KLT, SURF, or SIFT features and epipolar constraints to obtaininterframe translation (up to scale) and orientation displacements and Kalman filtering to recover an estimate for the magnitude of th...

This paper presents new laboratory data on long-wave (surf-beat) forcing by the random breaking of shorter gravity water waves on a plane beach. The data include incident and outgoing wave amplitudes, together with shoreline oscillation amplitudes at long-wave frequencies, from which the correlation between forced long waves and short-wave groups is examined. A detailed analysis of the cross-sh...

Signature recognition is the process of verifying a writer’s identity by checking the signature against samples previously stored in the database. Several techniques such as the distance-based and statistical classifiers used for feature extraction on a signature image are not invariant to scaling and rotation and the Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) though invariant to scaling and rota...

An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. Most of the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system uses the low-level features such as color, texture and shape to extract the features from the images. In Recent years the Interest points are used to extract the most similar images with different view point and different transformations. SURF is fast ...

[1] The retention of floating matter within the surf zone on a rip-channeled beach is examined with a combination of detailed field observations obtained during the Rip Current Experiment and a three-dimensional (3-D) wave and flow model. The acoustic Doppler current profiler–observed hourly vertical cross-shore velocity structure variability over a period of 3 days with normally incident swell...