Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
This paper addresses the problem of applying powerful pattern recognition algorithms based on kernels to efficient visual tracking. Recently Avidan [1] has shown that object recog...
Oliver M. C. Williams, Andrew Blake, Roberto Cipol...
The validation of modern software systems on mobile devices needs to incorporate both functional and non-functional requirements. While some progress has been made in validating pe...
Thomas Hubbard, Raimondas Lencevicius, Edu Metz, G...
In this paper, we show the necessity of reconfigurable hardware for data and signal processing in wireless mobile terminals. We first identify the key processing power requirement...