High-level query constructs help greatly improve the clarity of programs and the productivity of programmers, and are being introduced to increasingly more languages. However, the...
Distributed Source Coding (DSC), formulated thirty years ago, is lately witnessing a great research effort. This effort is encouraged by emerging new applications that could great...
The direct mode used in the bi-predictive pictures (B-pictures) can efficiently improve the coding performance of B pictures, because it has small overhead and obtains a predictiv...
Sprite is an efficient and concise method for representation of background video object, which is typically compressed with the MPEG-4 object-based coding technique. Due to the pr...
—Trial vector generation strategies and control parameters have a significant influence on the performance of differential evolution (DE). This paper studies whether the performa...