In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
In this paper, we investigate the benefits and challenges of integrating history into a near-real-time monitoring system; and present a general purpose continuous monitoring engi...
Recent years have seen the rapid spread of biometric technologies for automatic people recognition. However, security and privacy issues still represent the main obstacles for the ...
The frequency and severity of a number of recent intrusions involving data theft and leakages has shown that online users’ trust, voluntary or not, in the ability of third partie...