Texture has been recognized as an important visual primitive in image analysis. A widely used texture descriptor, which is part of the MPEG-7 standard, is that computed using mult...
We present an approach to tracking human activities in a monocular video. We model the human body by decomposing it into torso and limbs and use simple 3D shapes to approximate th...
MPEG, the Mowing Picture Experts Group, is a popular compression standard used in many multimedia applications. In video distribution systems, a CBR communications channel is ofte...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
A super-peer is a node in a peer-to-peer network that operates both as a server to a set of clients, and as an equal in a network of super-peers. Super-peer networks strike a bala...