Image category recognition is important to access visual information on the level of objects and scene types. So far, intensity-based descriptors have been widely used. To increas...
Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. S...
Inspired by Weber's Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that human percept...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Guoying Zhao, Xilin Chen,...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are employed in many applications in order to collect data. One key challenge is to minimize energy consumption to prolong network lifetime. A sche...
Yingshu Li, Chunyu Ai, Wiwek P. Deshmukh, Yiwei Wu
Self-stabilization is a strong property which guarantees that a network always resume a correct behavior starting from an arbitrary initial state. Weaker guarantees have later bee...
In a realistic sensor network, in particular with a nonuniform deployment, sensor nodes inevitably have varying workloads. This causes a natural problem that some sensor nodes are...