—Handheld devices have become sufficiently powerful that it is easy to create, disseminate, and access digital content (e.g., photos, videos) using them. The volume of such cont...
After the generation of multimedia data turned digital, an explosion of interest in their data storage, retrieval, and processing has drastically increased. This includes videos, ...
A robot’s ability to assist humans in a variety of tasks, e.g. in search and rescue or in a household, heavily depends on the robot’s reliable recognition of the objects in th...
The changing nature of e-Learning, the Web, and its users that can be observed in the last years results in a need for new approaches and technologies to fully exploit the existing...
—Modern compression standards such as H.264, DivX, or VC-1 provide astonishing quality at the costs of steadily increasing processing requirements. Therefore, efficient solution...