Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
In this paper, a lifelike talking head system is proposed. The talking head, which is driven by speaker independent speech recognition, requires only one single face image to synt...
We attack the problem of image-based rendering with occlusions and general camera motions by using distorted multiperspective images; such images provide multiple-viewpoint photom...
The requirement to change scale frequently is common to many 2D and 3D applications. Users must “zoom in” to examine details and “zoom out” to appreciate the context. This...