A common video indexing technique is to segment a video sequence into shots and then select representative key-frames. The process of shot break detection is a fundamental compone...
This paper describes an infrastructure that enables transparent development of image processing software for parallel computers. The infrastructure’s main component is an image ...
Curve evolution schemes for segmentation, implemented with level set methods, have become an important approach in computer vision. Previous work has modeled evolving contours whi...
Liana M. Lorigo, W. Eric L. Grimson, Olivier D. Fa...
This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz Qo...
Object-oriented modeling and design is a way of solving problems using models based upon real-world concepts. In this paradigm, the fundamental construct is the object, an entity ...