Successful software maintenance is becoming increasingly critical due to the increasing dependence of our society and economy on software systems. One key problem of software main...
—Soft biometric traits embedded in a face (e.g., gender and facial marks) are ancillary information and are not fully distinctive by themselves in face-recognition tasks. However...
—There has recently been a great deal of interest in the development of algorithms that objectively measure the integrity of video signals. Since video signals are being delivere...
In many applications, we find large video collections from different genres where the user is often only interested in one or two specific video genres. So, when users are queryin...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...