The use of technology for instruction, and the enormous amount of information available for consumption, places a considerable burden on instructors who must learn to integrate app...
A novel motion activity descriptor and its extraction from a compressed MPEG (MPEG-1/2) video stream are presented. The descriptor consists of two parts, a temporal descriptor and ...
—This paper presents a model-based approach to service creation. We observe that the complexity of software services increases. To manage this complexity, and to quickly create s...
NETCICATS is a software system for empirically evaluating network-conscious image compression, an approach that does not simply optimize compression, but which optimizes overall pe...
The current model for multicast transmission of video over the Internet assumes that a fixed average bandwidth is uniformly present throughout the network. Consequently, sources ...