In this paper we present a study on the Random Forest (RF) family of ensemble methods. From our point of view, a "classical" RF induction process presents two main drawba...
A practical lipreading system can be considered either as subject dependent (SD) or subject-independent (SI). An SD system is user-specific, i.e., customized for some particular ...
Helmholtz stereovision methods are limited to binocular stereovision or depth maps reconstruction. In this paper, we extend these methods to recover the full 3D shape of the object...
Specular flow is an important class of optical flow whose utility in visual tasks has gained much interest in contemporary vision research. Unfortunately, however, reliably estima...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...