"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...
The upcoming generation of computer hardware poses several new challenges for database developers and engineers. Software in general and database management systems (DBMSs) in par...
This paper examines the problem of moving object detection. More precisely, it addresses the difficult scenarios where background scene textures in the video might change over tim...
Human pose estimation is the task of determining the states (location, orientation and scale) of each body part. It is important for many vision understanding applications, e.g. v...
The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...