Image Processing and Computer Vision applications often require finding a particular pattern in a set of images. The task involves finding appearances of a given pattern in an ima...
We present a novel human posture recognition method using convex programming based matching schemes. Instead of trying to segment the object from the background, we develop a nove...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...
—Fuzzy/similarity joins have been widely studied in the research community and extensively used in real-world applications. This paper proposes and evaluates several algorithms f...
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In this paper, we study a novel form of continuous nearest neighbor queries in the presence of obstacles, namely continuous obstructed nearest neighbor (CONN) search. It considers...