We present a method for nonrigid registration of 2-D geometric shapes. Our contribution is twofold. First, we extend the classic chamfer-matching energy to a variational functional...
A new methodology for the reliability evaluation of an l-dissimilar-unit non-repairable cold-standby redundant system is introduced in this paper. Each unit is composed of a numbe...
Amir Azaron, Hideki Katagiri, Kosuke Kato, Masatos...
The paper presents a unit selection-based speech synthesis approach for mandarin Chinese. Unit selection-based approach generates speech by selecting proper units from a speech co...
The widespread adoption of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks has brought its security paradigm under active research. One of the important research areas in this field is the realiza...
We study the problem of e cient maintenance of materialized views that may contain duplicates. This problem is particularly important when queries against such views involve aggre...