“addiction” is defined as a pattern (abstract relationship). Such definition allows us to look in a new way at a number of cultural issues including the values, the lifestyl...
In this paper, we present a new technique for extracting regions of interest (ROI) applying a local watershed transformation. The proposed strategy for computing catchment basins ...
In urban areas, city noises represent today a great problem. They are real nuisances for city-dwellers. Noises are caused by traffic, road works, factories, and also by people. So...
Abstract. One way to protect a digital product is to embed an author's signature into the object in the form of minute errors. However, this technique cannot be directly appli...
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...