In this paper we present a mechanism for serializing the execution-state of a distributed Java application that is implemented on a conventional Object Request Broker (ORB) archite...
Lifelike animated agents for knowledge-based learning environments can provide timely, customized advice to support students' problem solving. Because of their strong visual ...
James C. Lester, Jennifer L. Voerman, Stuart G. To...
In order to track and recognize the movements of multiple people using multiple cameras, each person needs to be segmented and identified in the image of each camera. We propose a...
An important and unsolved problem today is the automatic quantification of the quality of video flows transmitted over packet networks. In particular, the ability to perform this ...
Abstract--We propose an approach to accurately detecting twodimensional (2-D) shapes. The cross section of the shape boundary is modeled as a step function. We first derive a one-d...