Fingerprint matching is still a challenging problem for reliable person authentication because of the complex distortions involved in two impressions of the same finger. In this p...
Image quality assessment (IQA) is of great importance for many image processing applications. Some IQA indexes proposed recently more or less try to boost their performance to acc...
Content analysis of video and still images is attractive for multiple reasons, such as enabling content-based actions and image manipulation. This paper presents a new algorithm an...
During the past decade there have been significant advances in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, in particular, Information Extraction (IE) [2] which have fueled...
Kiyoshi Sudo, Amit Bagga, Lawrence O'Gorman, Jon L...
: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...