—This paper introduces a novel contextual model for the recognition of people’s visual focus of attention (VFOA) in meetings from audio-visual perceptual cues. More specificall...
We present a scalable medium bit-rate wide-band audio coding technique based on frequency domain linear prediction (FDLP). FDLP is an efficient method for representing the long-ter...
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
A growing number of databases especially those published on the Web are becoming available to external users. Users of these databases are provided simple form-based query interfa...
Abstract. Even though SQL has become widely accepted as a language for implementing relational database schemas and querying data, there are cases where s experience the need for n...