Multiple description coding (MDC) is an error resilient source coding scheme that creates multiple descriptions of the source with the aim of providing an acceptable reconstructio...
In this paper, we extend the statistical model-based Estimation-Quantization (EQ) wavelet image coding algorithm introduced in [?] to include an adaptive transform component. For ...
We propose a novel approach to shape-based image retrieval that builds upon a similarity criterion which is based on the average point set distance. Compared to traditional techni...
We consider the problems of computing aggregation queries in temporal databases, and of maintaining materialized temporal aggregate views efficiently. The latter problem is partic...
The covariance region descriptor recently proposed in [1] has been proved robust and versatile for a modest computational cost. The covariance matrix enables efficient fusion of d...