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...
Knockout tournaments constitute a common format of sporting events, and also model a specific type of election scheme (namely, sequential pairwise elimination election). In such ...
The Task Parallel Library (TPL) is a library for .NET that makes it easy to take advantage of potential parallelism in a program. The library relies heavily on generics and delega...
Daan Leijen, Wolfram Schulte, Sebastian Burckhardt
Ubiquitous environments facilitate the fast and easy access to users’ physical environments. Ubiquitous environments typically capture users’ presence and activities in a room...
Tom Gross, Thilo Paul-Stueve, Tsvetomira Palakarsk...
Parallelization of sequential programs is often daunting because of the substantial development cost involved. Various solutions have been proposed to address this concern, includ...
Harnish Botadra, Qiong Cheng, Sushil K. Prasad, Er...