— Next-generation mobile communication systems will provide “always best connected” services to mobile users via cellular networks that provide wide area coverage for global ...
Nowadays the AFIS (Automatic fingerprint Identification system) plays more and more important roles in various applications such as access control, ATM card verification and crimi...
Recently, 3D face recognition algorithms have outperformed 2D conventional approaches by adding depth data to the problem. However, independently of the nature (2D or 3D) of the a...
Symmetric Multiprocessors (SMPs), combined with modern interconnection technologies are commonly used to build cost-effective compute clusters. However, contention among processor...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...