Abstract. A vision based head tracking approach is presented, combining foreground information with an elliptical head model based on the integration of gradient and skin-color inf...
All biological organisms must be able to regulate certain essential internal variables, e.g. core body temperature in mammals, in order to survive. Almost by definition, those that...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
— QoS and congestion performance are crucial to good application performance in a utility computing environment. Unfortunately, proper IP QoS setup is very complex and is either ...
Processing data streams with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees is an emerging area in existing streaming applications. Although it is possible to negotiate the result quality and...