- In this paper, we propose a novel rate allocation method for compound image coding using Quality-biased Rate-Distortion Optimization (QRDO) technique to enhance visual quality. T...
The way memory hierarchy has evolved in recent decades has opened new challenges in the development of indexing structures in general and spatial access methods in particular. In t...
This paper is a continuation to the work in [1], in which a new algorithm for skeletonization is introduced. The algorithm given there and implemented for script and text is applie...
Most queries to text search engines are ranked or Boolean. Phrase querying is a powerful technique for refining searches, but is expensive to implement on conventional indexes. I...
SpeechSkimmer is an interactive system for quickly browsing and finding information in speech recordings. Skimming speech recordings is much more difficult than visually scanning ...