Object-based video coding requires the transmission of the object shape. This shape is sent as a binary a-plane. In lossy packetbased networks, such as the Internet, this informat...
Guido M. Schuster, Xiaohuan Li, Aggelos K. Katsagg...
The proliferation of video content on the web makes similarity detection an indispensable tool in web data management, searching, and navigation. In this paper, we propose a numbe...
The paper presents a new technique of image enhancement. The described algorithm enables the suppression of noise and contrast enhancement. The interesting feature of this new alg...
Bogdan Smolka, Konrad W. Wojciechowski, Marek Szcz...
In this paper, we focus on mining surprising periodic patterns in a sequence of events. In many applications, e.g., computational biology, an infrequent pattern is still considere...
—The observed performance by individual peers in BitTorrent can be simply measured by their average download rate. While it is often stated that the observed peer-level performan...