The content-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) paradigm for system design is becoming increasingly popular, offering unique benefits for a large number of data-intensive applicatio...
We present spatio-temporal feature descriptors that can be inferred from video and used as building blocks in action recognition systems. They capture the evolution of ``elementar...
In dynamic environments with frequent content updates, we require online full-text search that scales to large data collections and achieves low search latency. Several recent met...
In this paper, we present an efficient hardware architecture for real-time implementation of quarter-pixel accurate variable block size motion estimation for H.264 / MPEG4 Part 10...
Responsiveness and scalability are important quality-of-service attributes for Web applications. Web sites that are slow, either because of poor responsiveness or lack of scalabil...