Emerging database application domains demand not only new functionality but also high performance. To satisfy these two requirements, the Volcano project provides efficient, exten...
We analyze the technique for reducing the complexity of entropy coding consisting in the a priori grouping of the source alphabet symbols, and in dividing the coding process in tw...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...
In the last few years, several algorithms for the automatic alignment of audio and score data corresponding to the same piece of music have been proposed. Among the major drawback...
Video information, image processing and computer vision techniques are developing rapidly nowadays because of the availability of acquisition, processing and editing tools, which ...