Hazard detection and prevention of natural and manmade disasters at critical civil infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. Recent events, such as earthquakes and terror...
Maria-Cruz Villa-Uriol, Falko Kuester, Oscar Garc&...
Planning, scheduling and effective management of contingencies are crucial for the successful management of construction projects. In this paper we explore a mathematical represen...
Capturing human activities that involve both gross full-body motion and detailed hand manipulation of objects is challenging for standard motion capture systems. We introduce a ne...
Today's query processing engines do not take advantage of the multiple occurrences of a relation in a query to improve performance. Instead, each instance is treated as a dis...
Yu Cao, Gopal C. Das, Chee Yong Chan, Kian-Lee Tan
Abstract: Multimedia databases are increasingly common in science, business, entertainment and many other applications. Their size and high dimensionality of features are major cha...