Many of today’s audiovisual application systems offer some kind of interactivity. Yet, quality assessments of these systems are often performed without taking into account the po...
To evaluate the performance of database applications and DBMSs, we usually execute workloads of queries on generated databases of different sizes and measure the response time. Th...
Optical flow estimation from image sequences has been for several years a mathematical process carried out by general purpose processors in no real time. In this work a specific a...
This work describes the proposal of a set of mechanisms to be applied in distributed component-based systems to allow the development of real-time applications capable of offering...
Many disciplines of multimedia and communication go towards ubiquitous computing and hands free- or no-touch interaction with computers. Application domains in this direction invol...