Close-talk headset microphones have been traditionally used for speech acquisition in a number of applications, as they naturally provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio -needed fo...
Iain McCowan, Maganto Hari Krishna, Daniel Gatica-...
Until recently, issues in image retrieval have been handled in DBMSs and in computer vision as separate research works. Nowadays, the trend is towards integrating the two approach...
Solomon Atnafu, Richard Chbeir, David Coquil, Lion...
Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...
Repositories play a pivotal role in an integrated reuse- based application development environment. Reusing software components implies their persistent storage and maintenance, a...
Panos Constantopoulos, Martin Doerr, Yannis Vassil...
The development of multimedia services is pushing networking technologies towards broadband solutions. A lot of research and development effort has been spent on finding a universa...