Learning a good ranking function plays a key role for many applications including the task of (multimedia) information retrieval. While there are a few rank learning methods availa...
The Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) describes the appearance of a material by its interaction with light at a surface point. A variety of analytical models...
maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...
The performance of video analysis and indexing algorithms strongly depends on the type, content and recording characteristics of the analyzed video. Current video indexing approac...
Push message delivery, where a client maintains an "always-on" connection with a server in order to be notified of a (asynchronous) message arrival in real-time, is incre...