We present a probabilistic method for audio-visual (AV) speaker tracking, using an uncalibrated wide-angle camera and a microphone array. The algorithm fuses 2-D object shape and ...
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Guillaume Lathoud, Iain McCow...
A multiple description scalar quantization (MDSQ) based coding system can be regarded as a source coder (quantizer) followed by a channel coder, i.e. the combination of index and ...
Wireless sensor networks generate a vast amount of data. This data, however, must be sparingly extracted to conserve energy, usually the most precious resource in battery-powered ...
Adam Silberstein, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Jun Yang ...
We propose a novel index structure, termed XTrie, that supports the efficient filtering of XML documents based on XPath expressions. Our XTrie index structure offers several novel...
Chee Yong Chan, Pascal Felber, Minos N. Garofalaki...
Nearest neighbor (NN) search in high dimensional feature space is widely used for similarity retrieval of multimedia information. However, recent research results in the database ...