Type-ahead search is a new information-access paradigm, in which systems can find answers to keyword queries “onthe-fly” as a user types in a query. It improves traditional ...
This paper presents an information-driven online video composition system. The composition work handled by the system includes dynamically setting multiple pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cam...
Qiong Liu, Xiaojin Shi, Don Kimber, Frank Zhao, Fr...
In recent years, relevance feedback has been studied extensively as a way to improve performance of content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, since users are usually unwillin...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, ...
With the general trend towards ubiquitous access to the Internet, more users will prefer to make voice calls through the Internet. VoIP as the application which facilitates voice c...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...