The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
This paper proposes a new image compression scheme by introducing visual patterns to nonlinear interpolative vector quantization (IVQ). Input images are first distorted by a gener...
With the wide diffusion of digital image acquisition devices,
the cost of managing hundreds of digital images is quickly increasing.
Currently, the main way to search digital ima...
—When manufacturing nano-devices, defects are a certainty and reliability becomes a critical issue. Until now, the most pervasive methods used to address reliability, involve inj...
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