Introduction

Abstract

Visual content mining has a long history and has been a central problem in the field of Computer Vision. It consists in finding and correctly labelling objects in images or video sequences, recognition of static and dynamic scenes. It is necessary in a large set of research and application domains: multimedia indexing and retrieval, computer vision, robotics, computer-aided diagnosis using medical images…Humans are naturally good at performing visual scene recognition without any particular effort. However, automatic object and scene recognition still remains a challenging task.