Shot Boundary Detection (SBD) is an important step required by CBVIR systems. In order to perform scalable SBD, a MapReduce based solution is proposed. So, instead of handling consecutive frames in a sequential manner, they can be processed in a fully parallel way. Usually, in the sequential...

The US Department of Agriculture uses many methods to screen incoming passenger baggage for agricultural quarantined materials (e.g. fresh fruits and meat). X-ray inspection is relied upon because it is a fast and non-invasive inspection method. This paper investigates a new image feature based...