Getting trapped in suboptimal local minima is a perennial problem in model based vision, especially in applications like monocular human body tracking where complex nonlinear para...
We have developed a system to process database queries over composed data providing web services. The queries are transformed into execution plans containing an operator that invok...
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...
Motion segmentation is a classic and on-going research topic which is an important pre-stage for many video processes. The reliability of the motion field calculation directly dete...