This paper presents a new approach to scene analysis, which aims at extracting structured information from a video sequence using directly low-level data. The method models the se...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Robust real-time tracking of non-rigid objects in a dynamic environment is a challenging task. Among various cues in tracking, color can provide an efficient visual cue for this t...
A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in ...
Understanding the channel popularity or content popularity is an important step in the workload characterization for modern information distribution systems (e.g., World Wide Web,...