This paper presents a novel block-based segmentation and adaptive coding(BSAC) algorithm for visually lossless compression of scanned documents that contain not only photographic ...
In this paper, a colour text/graphics segmentation is proposed. Firstly, it takes advantage of colour properties by computing a relevant hybrid colour model. Then an edge detectio...
In this paper, we propose to endow a graphical representation of a user in Instant Messaging – an avatar – with the ability to recognize and to express emotions and to play soc...
Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Is...
In technical drawings and medical drawings/maps it is often common to explain certain features of the drawing by blocks of text that are arranged on its boundary. Bekos et. al. int...
This paper describes a custom design approach as applied to power management in an innovative course on rapid prototyping of computer systems at Carnegie Mellon. We emphasize the ...