We apply multiple query optimization to batches of pull (on-demand) requests in a mobile database system. The resulting view can answer several queries at once, and it is broadcas...
Content-based image retrieval uses features that can be extracted from the images themselves. Using more than one representation of the images in a collection can improve the resu...
Java programs that utilize standard extensions with native libraries are problematic since the extensions are platform dependent. We present general methods that make such program...
—Parallel programming techniques have become one of the great challenges in the transition from single-core to multicore architectures. In this paper, we investigate the parallel...
An automatic face recognition system based on multiple facial features is described in this paper. Each facial feature is represented by a Gabor-based complex vector and is locali...