Most queries to text search engines are ranked or Boolean. Phrase querying is a powerful technique for refining searches, but is expensive to implement on conventional indexes. I...
A large-scale multimedia server, in practice, has to service a large number of clients simultaneously. Given the real-time requirements of each client and the fixed data transfer ...
This paper presents compact message formats for onion routing circuit construction using the Sphinx methodology developed for mixes. We significantly compress the circuit constru...
Creating long animation sequences with non-trivial repetitions is a time consuming and often difficult task. This is true for 2D images and even more true for 3D sequences. Based ...
We propose efficiency of representation as a criterion for evaluating shape models, then apply this criterion to compare the boundary curve representation with the medial axis. We...