Proxies are commonly used to cache objects, especially multimedia objects, so that clients can enjoy better quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees such as smaller startup latency and...
Abstract--Transcoding is a key technique for reducing the bitrate of a previously compressed video signal. A high transcoding ratio may result in an unacceptable picture quality wh...
In the past decade, the proliferation of mobile devices has increased at a spectacular rate. There are now more than 3.3 billion active cell phones in the world—a device that we...
Mark Woh, Sangwon Seo, Scott A. Mahlke, Trevor N. ...
Ray tracing is a technique used for generating highly realistic computer graphics images. In this paper, we explore the design of a simple but extremely parallel, multi-threaded, ...
Josef B. Spjut, Solomon Boulos, Daniel Kopta, Erik...
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...