: We describe QoSDREAM, a middleware framework for the construction and management of context-aware multimedia applications. The contributions of QoSDREAM include (1) a novel appro...
This paper describes a method for checking the acceptability of paraphrases in context. We use the Google n-gram data and a CCG parser to certify the paraphrasing grammaticality a...
Abstract. Two new techniques based on nonparametric estimation of probability densities are introduced which improve on the performance of equivalent robust methods currently emplo...
Compression of encrypted data can be achieved by employing Slepian-Wolf coding (SWC). However, how to efficiently exploit the source dependency in an encrypted colored signal such...
We propose an illumination invariant and rotation insensitive texture representation based on a Markovian textural model. A texture is aligned with its dominant orientation and te...