A crucial factor for real-time (interactive) services is the end-to-end delay experienced by the application. The contribution resulting from the queuing delay induced by the netwo...
Principal component analyses (PCA) has been widely used in reduction of the dimensionality of datasets, classification, feature extraction, etc. It has been combined with many oth...
Current object-oriented development practice is centered around application frameworks. In this paper, we argue that this approach is misleading, as it distracts from the ultimate...
In this work we develop a secure communication protocol in the context of a Remote Meter Reading (RMR) System. We first analyze existing standards in secure communication (e.g. IP...
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...