The automatic detection of near duplicate video segments, such as multiple takes of a scene or different news video clips showing the same event, has received growing research int...
Background: The development, in the last decade, of stochastic heuristics implemented in robust application softwares has made large phylogeny inference a key step in most compara...
Conventional vision systems are designed to perform in clear weather. However, any outdoor vision system is incomplete without mechanisms that guarantee satisfactory performance u...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...
—In the past few years, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have become a promising paradigm for building a wide variety of distributed systems and applications. The most popular P2P app...