Performance of biometric-based recognition systems depends on various factors: database quality, image preprocessing, encoding techniques, etc. Given a biometric database and a se...
Abstract. This paper explores techniques in the pipeline of image description based on visual codebooks suitable for video on-line processing. The pipeline components are (i) extra...
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
For many decades automatic facial expression recognition has scientifically been considered a real challenging problem in the fields of pattern recognition or robotic vision. The ...
Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...