A personal digital music library needs to be “agile”, that is, it needs to make it easy to capture and index material on the fly. A digital camera is a particularly effective...
A spread pattern of a tumor in medical images is an important factor for classification of the tumor. The spread pattern is generally not considered when we use only one segment fo...
A major hurdle facing data intensive grid applications is the appropriate handling of failures that occur in the grid-environment. Implementing the fault-tolerance transparently a...
Visual information has been shown to improve the performance of speech recognition systems in noisy acoustic environments. However, most audio-visual speech recognizers rely on a ...
In MPEG-4 scalable video coding, only a small portion of input data is coded in the base layer, and most signal components remain in enhancement layers. In this paper, we propose a...