Many computations exhibit a trade off between execution time and quality of service. A video encoder, for example, can often encode frames more quickly if it is given the freedom ...
Sasa Misailovic, Stelios Sidiroglou, Henry Hoffman...
Background: In the current era of scientific research, efficient communication of information is paramount. As such, the nature of scholarly and scientific communication is changi...
J. Lynn Fink, Pablo Fernicola, Rahul Chandran, Sav...
XML queries are usually expressed by means of XPath expressions identifying portions of the selected documents. An XPath expression defines a way of navigating an XML tree and ret...
We present a new approach for enhancing local scene contrast by unsharp masking over arbitrary surfaces under any form of illumination. Our adaptation of a well-known 2D technique...
Image databases are nowadays widely exploited in a number of different contexts, ranging from history of art, through medicine, to education. Existing querying paradigms are based ...