Each facial event will give rise to complex facial appearance variation. In this paper, we propose similarity features to describe the facial appearance for video-based facial even...
This paper introduces a new feature-based technique for implicitly modelling objects in visual surveillance. Previous work has generally employed background subtraction and other ...
Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is a computer vision application that aims at automatically retrieving images based on their visual content. Linear Discriminat Analysis and i...
The Dryad and DryadLINQ systems offer a new programming model for large scale data-parallel computing. They generalize previous execution environments such as SQL and MapReduce in...
Data-intensive applications are increasingly designed to execute on large computing clusters. Grouped aggregation is a core primitive of many distributed programming models, and i...