Automatic systems are needed for audiovisual databases to efficiently index, browse, summarize and retrieve, because the amount of stored data is increasing tremendously. Historic...
In this paper, we present an improved method of anchor models for speaker verification. Anchor model is the method that represent a speaker by his relativity of a set of other sp...
Many photo agencies use the web to sell access to their image collections. Despite significant security measures, images may be stolen and distributed, making it necessary to det...
Recursion represents an important addition to the SQL language. This work focuses on the optimization of linear requeries in SQL. To provide an abstract framework for discussion, ...
In order to facilitate query processing for XML data, several path indexing, labelling and numbering scheme have been proposed. However, if XML data need to be updated frequently,...