As recording technology becomes pervasive there is a dramatic increase in the number of events being recorded in multimedia. The challenge now facing users is to quickly view the ...
Visual information has been shown to improve the performance of speech recognition systems in noisy acoustic environments. However, most audio-visual speech recognizers rely on a ...
Semantic understanding of multimedia content is critical in enabling effective access to all forms of digital media data. By making large media repositories searchable, semantic ...
— There are two fundamental technology issues that challenge the robustness of IP backbones. First, SONET protection is gradually being removed because of its high cost (while SO...
—Wireless communications using ad hoc networks are receiving an increasing interest. The most attractive feature of ad hoc networks is the flexibility. The network is set up by ...