Active Appearance Model (AAM) represents the shape and appearance of an object via two low-dimensional subspaces, one for shape and one for appearance. AAM for facial images is cu...
A novel video encoding and splicing method is proposed which minimizes the tune-in time of “channel zapping”, i.e. changing from one audiovisual service to another, in IPDC ov...
In this paper, we propose a simple and fully distributed mechanism for constructing and maintaining the overlay topology in mesh-based P2P-TV systems. Our algorithm optimizes the ...
Richard John Lobb, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Emili...
In this paper, we propose a utility-based resource allocation scheme for layer-encoded IPTV multicast streaming service over IEEE 802.16 WiMAX networks. Unlike existing utility-bas...
This article proposes the XGOP-B deterministic traffic model for MPEG video services requiring strict bounds on the quality of service provided by the network. The XGOP-B model ta...
Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Otto Carlos Muniz Bandeira...