H.264/AVC is a new international standard for the compression of natural video images, in which a deblocking filter has been adopted to remove blocking artifacts. In this paper, w...
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
The engineering community has recently begun to adopt wireless sensing technologies for use in many sensing applications. These low-cost sensors provide an optimal setting for den...
Foregrounds extracted from the background, which are intended to be used as photorealistic avatars for simulators in a variety of virtual worlds, should satisfy the following four ...
Background: Good statistical models for analyzing and simulating multilocus recombination data exist but are not accessible to many biologists because their use requires reasonabl...