Distributed Video Coding (DVC) is based on a new paradigm in coding, which has received many interests recently. This paper proposes a hybrid spatial and temporal error concealmen...
Database outsourcing is an important emerging trend which involves data owners delegating their data management needs to an external service provider. Since a service provider is a...
In this paper, we explore the application of 2-D dual-tree discrete wavelet transform (DDWT), which is a directional and redundant transform, for image coding. Three methods for sp...
Biometric based personal authentication is an effective method for automatically recognizing, with a high confidence, a person’s identity. By observing that the texture pattern p...
Lin Zhang, Lei Zhang 0006, David Zhang, Hailong Zh...
The randomness of iris pattern makes it one of the most reliable biometric traits. On the other hand, the complex iris image structure and the various sources of intra-class varia...