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Computer vision has started migrating from the peripheral area to the core of computer science and engineering. Multimedia computing and natural human-machine interfaces are providing adequate challenges and motivation to develop techniques that will play key role in the next generation of computing systems. Recognition of objects and events is very important in multimedia systems as well as interfaces. We consider an object a spatial entity and an event a temporal entity. Visual recognition of objects and activities is one of the fastest developing area of computer vision.
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Shah, M., Jain, R. (1997). Visual Recognition of Activities, Gestures, Facial Expressions and Speech: An Introduction and a Perspective. In: Shah, M., Jain, R. (eds) Motion-Based Recognition. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8935-2_1
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