The recent advances in non-scalable video encoding brought by the H.264/AVC standard offered significant improvements in terms of rate-distortion performance. This paper proposes ...
Motion based video indexing is an important and active research area in content-based video retrieval. It explores the dynamic characteristics of video content and provides techni...
The application of frequent patterns in classification appeared in sporadic studies and achieved initial success in the classification of relational data, text documents and graph...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
We study the problem of query optimization in federated relational database systems. The nature of federated databases explicitly decouples many aspects of the optimization proces...