In standard predictive video coders, intra-mode coding of macroblocks (MBs) provides packet loss resilience, at the cost of reduced compression efficiency. Conventional mode selec...
An integral scheme that provides a global eigen approach to the problem of face recognition of still images has been presented in [1]. The scheme is based on the representation of...
A fundamental problem in information integration is that of designing the relationships, called schema mappings, between two schemas. The specification of a semantically correct sc...
Recently there has been increasing interest in the development of progress indicators for SQL queries. In this paper we present a lightweight online framework for this problem. Ou...
For location-based services it is often essential to efficiently process proximity relations among mobile objects, such as to establish whether a group of friends or family member...