Present approaches to human face detection have made several assumptions that restrict their ability to be extended to general imaging conditions. We identify that the key factori...
Occlusion is one of the major consequences of the physical image generation process: it occurs when an opaque object partly obscures the view of another object further away from t...
Meta modeling is a wide-spread technique to define visual languages, with the UML being the most prominent one. Despite several advantages of meta modeling such as ease of use, the...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is about to emerge as a new standard for databases, the problem of providing solid logical grounds for XML query languages arises. For the ...
XML is fast becoming the standard for information exchange on the Internet. As such, information expressed in XML will need to be integrated with existing information systems, whi...