—We investigate methods to improve the performance of algorithms for automatic storage reclamation of object databases. These algorithms are based on a technique called partition...
Jonathan E. Cook, Alexander L. Wolf, Benjamin G. Z...
This paper presents a framework for maximum a posteriori (MAP) speaker adaptation of state duration distributions in hidden Markov models (HMM). Four key issues of MAP estimation, ...
To improve the scalability of the Web it is common practice to apply caching and replication techniques. Numerous strategies for placing and maintaining multiple copies of Web doc...
Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tan...
DCT-based digital video coding standards such as MPEG and H.26x are becoming more widely adopted for multimedia applications. Since the standards differ in their format and syntax...
Abstract--The emerging video coding standard MPEG-4 enables various content-based functionalities for multimedia applications. To support such functionalities, as well as to improv...