In this paper, we developed a technique to detect a special kind of shot, namely establishment shot, which is used to introduce a new scene to the audience or remind the audience ...
In subband image and video compression, the issue of dyadic spatial scalability with a downsizing ratio of 2:1 has already been widely investigated. In some application scenarios,...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Biometrics-based authentication is becoming popular because of increasing ease-of-use and reliability. Performance evaluation of such systems is an important issue. We attempt to ...
Programmable circuit design has played an important role in improving design productivity over the last few decades. By imposing structure on the design, efficient automation of s...