MPEG-4 is an important international standard with wide applicability. This paper focuses on MPEG-4’s main profile, video, whose approach allows more efficiency in coding and ...
Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded sys...
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
—The rapid advances in a wide range of wireless access technologies along with an industry-wide IP-convergence have set up the stage for context-aware computing. The “location...
The development of spatiotemporal database systems is primarily motivated by applications tracking and presenting mobile objects. Another important trend is the visualization and p...
Facial animation has been combined with text-to-speech synthesis to create innovative multimodal interfaces. In this paper, we present an architecture for this multimodal interfac...