This paper proposes an algorithm to simultaneously estimate both the 3D shape and parameters of a surface reflectance model from multiple views of an object made of a single mater...
Maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views inside or outside the database, is a novel, feasible and efficient approach to accelerate XML query processing. However, th...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Na Ta, Yong Zhang, Lizh...
The robust localization and tracking of faces in video streams is a fundamental concern for many subsequent multi-modal recognition approaches. Especially in meeting scenarios sev...
Frank Wallhoff, Martin Zobl, Gerhard Rigoll, Igor ...
Accurate cardinality estimation is critically important to high-quality query optimization. It is well known that conventional cardinality estimation based on histograms or simila...
An increasing number of applications use XML data published from relational databases. For speed and convenience, such applications routinely cache this XML data locally and acces...
Philip Bohannon, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, P....