Sparse matrix operations achieve only small fractions of peak CPU speeds because of the use of specialized, indexbased matrix representations, which degrade cache utilization by i...
Relevance feedback is an attractive approach to developing flexible metrics for content-based retrieval in image and video databases. Large image databases require an index struct...
Videotext refers to text superimposed on video frames. A videotext based Multimedia Description Scheme has recently been adopted into the MPEG-7 standard. A study of published wor...
StreaMon is the adaptive query processing engine of the STREAM prototype Data Stream Management System (DSMS) [4]. A fundamental challenge in many DSMS applications (e.g., network...
Modern development environments support refactoring by providing atomically behaviour-preserving transformations. While useful, these transformations are limited in three ways: (i)...