Many interfaces allow users to manipulate graphical objects, icons representing underlying data or the data themselves, against a spatial backdrop or canvas. Users take advantage ...
Frank M. Shipman III, Catherine C. Marshall, Thoma...
Abstract. The present work is focused on a global image characterization based on a description of the 2D displacements of the different shapes present in the image, which can be e...
Edoardo Ardizzone, Antonio Chella, Roberto Pirrone
Implementing crash recovery in an Object-Oriented Database System (OODBMS) raises several challenging issues for performance that are not present in traditional DBMSs. These perfo...
Abstract. Detecting contour closure, i.e., finding a cycle of disconnected contour fragments that separates an object from its background, is an important problem in perceptual gro...
Enabling a sophisticated Demand Response (DR) framework, whereby individual consumers adapt their electricity consumption in response to price variations, is a major objective of ...