—We document methods for the quantitative evaluation of systems that produce a scalar summary of a biometric sample’s quality. We are motivated by a need to test claims that qu...
We present an approach to multiscale image analysis. It hinges on an operative definition of texture that involves a "small region", where some (unknown) statistic is agg...
—Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most app...
Lossless image compression techniques typically consider images to be a sequence of pixels in row major order. The processing of each pixel consists of two separate operations. Th...
In PODS'91, Nurmi and Soisalon-Soininen presented a new type of binary search tree for databases, which they call a chromatic tree. The aim is to improve runtime performance ...