The fact that objects in the world appear in different ways depending on the scale of observation has important implications if one aims at describing them. It shows that the not...
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...
This paper presents a twin-class transmission system for narrowband radio access channels suitable for handheld video phone and multimedia portable PC applications. The transmissio...
Region-based functionality offered by the MPEG-4 video compression standard is also appealing for still images, for example to permit object-based queries of a still-image database...
Abstract--We continue the study of adaptive schemes for the sequential lossy coding of individual sequences which was recently initiated by Linder and Lugosi. Specifically, we cons...