Face recognition has become an important topic within the field of pattern recognition and computer vision. In this field a number of different approaches to feature extraction, m...
The dream of pervasive multimedia retrieval and reuse will not be realized without incorporating semantics in the multimedia database. As video data is penetrating many informatio...
: Tracking moving objects is one of the most common requirements for many location-based applications. The location of a moving object changes continuously but the database locatio...
In the Software Engineering (SE) domain, the Model Driven Engineering (MDE)1 paradigm focuses on using models as main software artifacts to provide a full description of software s...
One distinctive feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents essential information about each user. This chapter complements other chapters of this book in revi...