—This paper introduces a new high-rate analysis of the multiple description scalar quantizer (MDSQ) with balanced descriptions. The analysis provides insight into the structure o...
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS) operate under strict performance requirements. Key to meeting such requirements is to efficiently handle time-critical tasks such as managing...
Irina Botan, Gustavo Alonso, Peter M. Fischer, Don...
As an increasing number of digital library projects embrace the harvesting of item-level descriptive metadata, issues of description granularity and concerns about potential loss ...
Muriel Foulonneau, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habi...
We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. "Events" are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always...
Abstract. How to create effective body animations for virtual agents with emotions remains the state of the art for human animators and a great challenge for computer scientists. I...