An important class of queries is the LIKE predicate in SQL. In the absence of an index, LIKE queries are subject to performance degradation. The notion of indexing on substrings (...
In this paper we introduce the DCT-mod2 facial feature extraction technique which utilizes polynomial coefficients derived from 2-D DCT coefficients of spatially neighbouring bloc...
Fingerprint individuality study deals with the crucial problem of the discriminative power of fingerprints for recognizing people. In this paper, we present a novel fingerprint in...
Abstract. Recent proposals have shown that database replication providing 1copy-serializability can have excellent performance in LAN environments by using powerful multicast primi...
We propose a novelapproach to automaticallygrowing and pruning Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts. The constructive algorithm proposed here enables large hierarchies consisting of s...