Abstract—Multimedia applications for mobile devices are increasing and growing more sophisticated. Many of these applications require computationally intensive processing, such a...
Carri W. Chan, Nicholas Bambos, Jatinder Pal Singh
This paper presents a novel face-assisted video coding scheme to enhance the visual quality of the face regions in video telephony applications. A skin-color based face detection ...
In response to the consistent increase of elder people living in their apartments, and the need for innovative non-obtrusive tools to connect elders to their caregivers, we starte...
The research community has witnessed a large interest in monitoring large scale distributed systems. In these applications typically we wish to monitor a global system condition wh...
Ali Abbasi, Ahmad Khonsari, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi
The terms that are used by users during tagging have been found to be different from the terms that are used when searching for resources, which represents a fundamental problem f...