It is well known that occurrence counts of words in documents are often modeled poorly by standard distributions like the binomial or Poisson. Observed counts vary more than simpl...
Geometric models created from range sensors are usually incomplete. Considerable effort has been made to fix this problem, ranging from manual repairing to geometric interpolatio...
Most of the existing work on modeling variable bit rate (VBR) video sources does not either explicitly take into account groupof-pictures (GOP) or assumes a fixed GOP structure. R...
In many data sharing settings, such as within the biological and biomedical communities, global data consistency is not always attainable: different sites' data may be dirty,...
Most recent research on querying and managing data streams has concentrated on traditional data models where the data come in the form of tuples or XML data. Complex types of strea...