In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
Recent work has shown the promise in using local-search “probes” as a basis for directing a backtracking-based refinement search. In this approach, the decision about the next...
Alexander Nareyek, Stephen F. Smith, Christian M. ...
Alignment between the input and target objects has great impact on the performance of image analysis and recognition system, such as those for medical image and face recognition. A...
Reconfigurable computing (RC) is rapidly becoming a vital technology for many applications, from high-performance computing to embedded systems. The inherent advantages of custom-...
Gongyu Wang, Greg Stitt, Herman Lam, Alan D. Georg...
In video surveillance, automatic methods for scene understanding and activity modeling can exploit the high redundancy of object trajectories observed over a long period of time. ...