This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
Multimedia information retrieval systems design is currently considered a complex task since it requires an understanding of users specific way of searching, processing and using ...
Modern extensible database systems support multimedia data through ADTs. However, because of the problems with multimedia query formulation, this support is not sufficient. Multim...
The use of Virtual Environments as a user interface can be important for certain types of applications, especially in the fields of education and entertainment. These synthetic wo...
"Bloat", a term that has existed in the technical community for many years, has recently received attention in the popular press. The term has a negative connotation imp...