Robots possess many effectors and sensors of various capability. It is often difficult, not only to integrate these numerous capabilities, but also to organize them to accomplish ...
Abstract— Today data sources are pervasive and their number is growing tremendously. Current tools are not prepared to exploit this unprecedented amount of information and to cop...
We propose a new technique for fusing multiple cues to robustly segment an object from its background in video sequences that suffer from abrupt changes of both illumination and p...
Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
The trends and recent changes in logistics lead to complex and partially conflicting requirements on logistic planning and control systems. Due to the lack of efficiency of curren...
Hagen Langer, Jan D. Gehrke, Joachim Hammer, Marti...