One of the first steps of any visual system is that of locating suitable interest points, ‘salient regions’, in the scene, to detect events, and eventually to direct gaze towa...
A fundamental task in computer vision is that of determining the position and orientation of a moving camera relative to an observed object or scene. Many such visual tracking alg...
Pervasive systems enable us to have an overview of what digital environments will look like in the future. Opportunities given by pervasive systems, both in terms of applications ...
From beginning of 1994 to the end of 1996, the IRO-DB ESPRIT project has developed tools for accessing relational and object-oriented databases in an integrated way. The system is...
Peter Fankhauser, Georges Gardarin, M. Lopez, J. M...
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...