Object-based video coding requires the transmission of the object shape. This shape is sent as a binary a-plane. In lossy packetbased networks, such as the Internet, this informat...
Guido M. Schuster, Xiaohuan Li, Aggelos K. Katsagg...
Similarity search has been widely used in many applications such as information retrieval, image data analysis, and time-series matching. Specifically, a similarity query retrieves...
Database columns are often correlated, so that cardinality estimates computed by assuming independence often lead to a poor choice of query plan by the optimizer. Multidimensional...
Utkarsh Srivastava, Peter J. Haas, Volker Markl, M...
Many scientific applications generate massive volumes of data through observations or computer simulations, bringing up the need for effective indexing methods for efficient stora...
Although real-time interactive volume rendering is available even for very large data sets, this visualization method is used quite rarely in the clinical practice. We suspect this...
Peter Kohlmann, Stefan Bruckner, Armin Kanitsar,...