Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Vikas Raykar, Igor Kozintsev, Rainer Lienhart. Position Calibration of Microphones and Loudspeakers in Distributed Computing Platforms. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vo. 13, No. 1, pp. 70-83, Jan. 2005. [PDF: 613KB]
  2. Rainer Lienhart and Alexander Hartmann. Classifying images on the web automatically. Journal of Electronic Imaging 11(4), pp. 445-454, October 2002. [PDF: 1520KB]
  3. Rainer Lienhart and Axel Wernicke. Localizing and Segmenting Text in Images, Videos and Web Pages. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 12, No.4, pp. 256 -268, April 2002. [PDF : 485KB]
  4. Rainer Lienhart, Matthew Holliman, Yen-Kuang Chen, Igor Kozintsev, and Minerva Yeung. Improving Media Services on P2P Networks. IEEE Internet Computing, pp. 73-77, Jan./Feb. 2002. [PDF: 421KB]
  5. Rainer Lienhart. Reliable Transition Detection In Videos: A Survey and Practitioner's Guide. International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG), Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 469-486, 2001. [PDF : 164 KB]
  6. Rainer Lienhart. Smart Media Management. OEMagazine, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 24-27, July 2001.  [PDF : 90 KB]
  7. Silvia Pfeiffer, Rainer Lienhart and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Scene Determination based on Video and Audio Features. Vol. 15, pp. 59-81, 2001. [PDF : 625 KB]
  8. Rainer Lienhart and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Automatic Text Segmentation and Text Recognition for Video Indexing. ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, Vol. 8. pp.69-81, January 2000; also Technical Report TR-98-009, Praktische Informatik IV, University of Mannheim, May 1998. [PDF : 283KB]
  9. Rainer Lienhart, Wolfgang Effelsberg, and Ramesh Jain. VisualGREP: A Systematic Method to Compare and Retrieve Video Sequences. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 10 (1):47-72, January 2000. [PDF: 547KB]
  10. Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer, and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Video Abstracting. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp.55-62, December 1997. [PDF : 132 KB] [PDF from ACM : 4313 KB]
  11. Silvia Pfeiffer, Rainer Lienhart, Stephan Fischer and Wolfgang Effelsberg, Abstracting Digital Movies Automatically, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp.345-353, December 1996. [PDF : 248 KB].

Books and Chapters

  1. C. Gregor van den Boogaart, Rainer Lienhart. Visual Audio: An Interactive Tool for Analyzing and Editing of Audio in the Spectrogram. in Interactive Video: Algorithms and Technologies, pp. 107-130, Springer Verlag, June 2006. [PDF]
  2. R. Lienhart, I. Kozintsev, D. Budnikov, I. Chikalov, and V. C. Raykar. Providing Common Time and Space in Distributed AV-Sensor Networks by Self-Calibration . Book chapter in Intelligent Multimedia Processing with Soft Computing (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing), Springer-Verlag, Nov. 2004. [PDF]
  3. Rainer Lienhart. Video OCR: A Survey and Practitioner’s Guide. In Video Mining, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pp. 155-184, Oct. 2003. [PDF: 780KB]
  4. Rainer Lienhart, Igor Kozintsev, Yen-Kuang Chen, Matthew Holliman, Minerva Yeung, Andre Zaccarin, and Rohit Puri. Challenges in Distributed Video Management and Delivery. Handbook of Video Databases. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida , pp. 961-990, 2003. [PDF : 830KB]
  5. Rainer Lienhart, Christoph Kuhmünch and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Isolating and Identifying Commercials in TV Programs. In Handbook of Multimedia Computing, CRC Press, pp. 425-444, 1998.
  6. Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer, and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Automatic Trailer Production. In Handbook of Multimedia Computing, CRC Press, pp. 361-378, 1998.
  7. Rainer Lienhart. Methods for Content Analysis, Indexing and Comparison on Digital Video Sequences. Ph.D. thesis, Shaker Verlag GmbH, ISBN 3-8265-4125-1, Aug. 1998. (in German)

Conference Papers

  1. Eva Hörster, Rainer Lienhart. Approximating Optimal Visual Sensor Placement. IEEE ICME2006, Toronto, Canada, July 10-12, 2006. Auch als Technical Report: [PDF]
  2. C. Gregor van den Boogaart, Rainer Lienhart. Fast Gabor Transformation for processing high quality audio. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 2006(ICASSP), Vol. 3, pp. 161-164, 14-19 May 2006, Toulouse, France, 2006. [PDF]
  3. Bob Davies and Rainer Lienhart. Using CART to Segment Road Images. SPIE Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval 2006, 15-19 Jan. 2006, San Jose, 2006.[PDF]
  4. Eva Hörster, Rainer Lienhart, Wolfgang Kellermann, J.-Y. Bouguet. Calibration of Visual Sensors and Actuators in Distributed Computing Platforms. 3rd ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance & Sensor Networks (VSSN2005), Singapore, Nov. 11 2005.[PDF]
  5. E. Hörster, R. Lienhart, W. Kellermann, J.Y. Bouguet. Precise Visibility Determination of Displays in Camera Images. IEEE ICME2005, Amsterdam, Netherland, July 6-8, 2005. [PDF]
  6. S. Wehr, W. Kellermann, R. Lienhart, I. Kozintsev. Synchronization of Acoustic Sensors for Distributed Ad-hoc Audio. Proc. IEEE Multimedia Software Engineering, Miami, FL, Dec. 2004. [PDF]
  7. D. Budnikov, I. Chikalov, I. Kozintsev and R. Lienhart. Distributed Array of Synchronized Sensors and Actuators. EUSIPCO 2004. Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2004. [PDF: 329KB]
  8. Rainer Lienhart and Igor Kozintsev. Self-aware Distributed AV Sensor and Actuator Networks for Improved Media Adaptation. ICME2004, Taiwan, June 2004. [PDF: 126KB]
  9. I. Kozintsev, R. Lienhart, D. Budnikov, I. Chikalov, S. Egorychev. Providing Common I/O Clock for Wireless Distributed Platforms . ICASSP2004, Vol. 3, pp. 909-912, Montreal, May 2004. [PDF: 92KB]
  10. Vikas Raykar, Igor Kozintsev, Rainer Lienhart. Self Localization of acoustic sensors and actuators on Distributed Platforms. International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration (WOMTEC), Nice, France, Oct. 2003. [PDF: 581KB]
  11. Rainer Lienhart, Igor Kozintsev, and Stefan Wehr. Universal Synchronization Scheme for Distributed Audio-Video Capture on Heterogeneous Computing Platforms. ACM Multimedia 2003, Berkeley, Nov. 2003. [PDF: 163KB]
  12. Vikas Raykar, Igor Kozintsev, and Rainer Lienhart. Position Calibration of Audio Sensors and Actuators in a Distributed Computing Platform. ACM Multimedia 2003, Berkeley, Nov. 2003. [PDF: 884KB]
  13. Vikas Raykar, Igor Kozintsev, and Rainer Lienhart. Self Localization of acoustic sensors and actuators on Distributed platforms. 2003 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration, Nice, France, Oct. 2003. [PDF: 580KB]
  14. Rainer Lienhart, Alexander Kuranov, Vadim Pisarevsky. Empirical Analysis of Detection Cascades of Boosted Classifiers for Rapid Object Detection. DAGM'03, 25th Pattern Recognition Symposium, Madgeburg, Germany, pp. 297-304, Sep. 2003. [PDF: 307KB]
  15. Rainer Lienhart, Luhong Liang, and Alexander Kuranov. A Detector Tree of Boosted Classifiers for Real-time Object Detection and Tracking. IEEE ICME2003, Vol. 2, pp. 277-280, July 2003. [PDF: 178KB]
  16. Rainer Lienhart, Igor Kozintsev, Stefan Wehr, and Minerva Yeung. On The Importance of Exact Synchronization For Distributed Audio Signal Processing. ICASSP2003, Vol. 4, pp. 840-843, April 2003. [PDF : 82KB]
  17. Xinmin Tian, Yen-Kuang Chan, Milind Girkar, Steven Ge, Rainer Lienhart, and Sanjiv Shah. Exploring the Use of Hyper-Threading Technology for Multimedia Applications with Intel OpenMP Compiler. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, pp. 8-14, April 2003.
  18. Y. Chen, R. Lienhart, E. Debes, M. Holliman, and M. Yeung. The Impact of SMT/SMP Designs on Multimedia Software Engineering? A Workload Analysis Study. IEEE 4th Intl. Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE'2002), Dec. 2002. [PDF: 113KB]
  19. Y.-K. Chen, E. Debes, R. Lienhart, M. Holliman, and M. Yeung. Evaluating Performance of Multimedia Application on Simultaneous Multi-Threading. Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, pp. 529-534, Dec. 2002.
  20. Rainer Lienhart and Jochen Maydt. An Extended Set of Haar-like Features for Rapid Object Detection. IEEE ICIP 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 900-903, Sep. 2002. [PDF : 117KB]; see also MRL Technical Report Dec. 2002. [PDF: 1053KB]
  21. Jochen Maydt and Rainer Lienhart. A Fast Method For Training Support Vector Machines With a Very Large Set of Linear Features. IEEE ICME 2002, Lousanne, Switzerland, pp. xx-yy, Aug. 2002. [PDF: 70KB, extended Version: 486KB]
  22. Alexander Hartmann und Rainer Lienhart. Automatic Classification of Images on the Web. In Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2002, Proc. SPIE 4676, pp. 31-40, Jan. 2002. [PDF: 184KB]
  23. Rainer Lienhart and Andre Zaccarin. A System for Reliable Dissolve Detection in Videos. ICIP 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2001. [PDF: 100KB]
  24. Rainer Lienhart. Reliable Dissolve Detection. In Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001, Proc. SPIE 4315, pp. 219-230, Jan. 2001. [PDF: 168KB]
  25. Axel Wernicke and Rainer Lienhart. Text Localization and Text Segmentation in Images, Videos and Web Pages. DAGM 2000 (22. Symposium für Mustererkennung), pp. xx-yy, Sept. 2000.
  26. Axel Wernicke and Rainer Lienhart. On the Segmentation of Text in Videos. IEEE Int. Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2000 Vol.3, pp. 1511-1514, July 2000; also Technical Report MRL-VIG00005, March 2000 [PDF: 68 KB].
  27. Rainer Lienhart. A System for Effortless Content Annotation to unfold the Semantics in Videos. IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video Libraries (CBAIVL-2000), pp. 45-49, June 2000; also Technical Report MRL-VIG00003, March 2000 [PDF: 75 KB]
  28. Rainer Lienhart. Dynamic Video Summarization of Home Video. SPIE 3972: Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000. pp. 378-389, Jan. 2000; also Technical Report MRL-VIG99020, April 1999.
  29. Rainer Lienhart. Abstracting Home Video Automatically. ACM Multimedia 99, Orlando, Florida, 1999; also Technical Report MRL-VIG99015, April 1999.
  30. Bob Davies, Rainer Lienhart, and Boon-Lock Yeo. The Video Document. Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV, SPIE Vol. 3846, pp. 22-34, 20-22 September 1999; also Technical Report MRL-VIG99014, June 1999.
  31. Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Scene Determination based on Video and Audio Features. Proc. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Florence, Italy, pp. 685 - 690, 7-11 June 1999. [Abstract] [PS: gzipped 100KB].
  32. Rainer Lienhart. Comparison of Automatic Shot Boundary Detection Algorithms. In Image and Video Processing VII 1999, Proc. SPIE 3656-29, Jan. 1999. [PDF: 172KB]
  33. Silvia Pfeiffer, Rainer Lienhart, Gerald Kühne and Wolfgang Effelsberg. The MoCA Project - Movie Content Analysis Research at the University of Mannheim. In J. Dassow, R. Kruse (Hg.) "Informatik '98: Informatik zwischen Bild und Sprache" 28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fuer Informatik Magdeburg, 21.-25.September 1998, Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 329-338, 1998.
  34. Rainer Lienhart, Wolfgang Effelsberg, and Ramesh Jain. Towards a Visual Grep: A systematic analysis of various methods to compare video sequences. In Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, Ishwar. K. Sethi, Ramesh C. Jain, Editors, Proc. SPIE 3312, pp. 271-282. 1998. [Abstract] [PS: 60 KB] [PDF: 140KB]
  35. Rainer Lienhart, Christoph Kuhmünch and Wolfgang Effelsberg. Aufspüren und Erkennen von Werbung in laufenden Fernsehsendungen. In: Mustererkennung 1997, 19. DAGM-Symposium, Braunschweig, 15.-17. September 1997, Erwin Paulus and Friedrich M. Wahl, Editors, pp. 435-445, September 1997. [Abstract] [PS : 104 KB]
  36. Rainer Lienhart, Christoph Kuhmünch and Wolfgang Effelsberg. On the Detection and Recognition of Television Commercials, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 509 - 516, June 1997. [Abstract] [PS: 70KB]; also Technical Report TR-96-016, Dezember 1996.
  37. Pfeiffer, Silvia, Fischer, Stephan; Effelsberg, Wolfgang. Automatic Audio Content Analysis. Proc. ACM Multimedia 96, Bosten, MA, Nov. 1996, pp. 21-30. [Abstract] [PS: 151KB]; also Technical Report TR-96-006 (gzipped 151KB), April 1996.
  38. Rainer Lienhart. Automatic Text Recognition for Video Indexing. Proc. ACM Multimedia 96, Bosten, MA, Nov. 1996, pp. 11-20. [Abstract] [PS: 631KB]; also Technical Report TR-96-006 (gzipped 631723 bytes), April 1996.
  39. Rainer Lienhart and Frank Stuber, Automatic Text Recognition in Digital Videos, in Image and Video Processing IV 1996, Proc. SPIE 2666-20 (1996). [Abstract] [PS: 242KB]; also Technical Report TR-95-036, December 1995.
  40. Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer and Wolfgang Effelsberg, The MoCA Workbench: Support for Creativity in Movie Content Analysis, Proc. IEEE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 314 - 321, June 1996. [Abstract] [PS: 176KB]; also  Technical Report TR-95-034, November 1995.
  41. Stephan Fischer, Rainer Lienhart and Wolfgang Effelsberg, Automatic Recogition of Film Genres , Proc. ACM Multimedia 95, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1995, pp. 295-304. [Abstract] [PS: 137KB]; also Technical Report TR-95-006, April 1995.

Technical Reports

  1. Rainer Lienhart, Alexander Kuranov, and Vadim Pisarevsky. Empirical Analysis of Detection Cascades of Boosted Classifiers for Rapid Object Detection. MRL Technical Report, Intel Labs, May 2002, revised Dec. 2002. [PDF: 1053KB]

 
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