The question of fingerprint individuality can be posed as follows: Given a query fingerprint, what is the probability that the observed number of minutiae matches with a template ...
Decision-theoretic optimization is becoming a popular tool in the user interface community, but creating accurate cost (or utility) functions has become a bottleneck — in most c...
Musical databases are growing in number, size, and complexity, and they are becoming increasingly relevant for a broad range of academic as well as commercial applications. The fe...
Recently numerous proposals for modelling and querying Multidimensional Databases (MDDB) are proposed. Among the still open problems there is a rigorous classification of the diff...
Multi-resolution methods are widely used in scientific visualization, image processing, and computer graphics. While many applications only require an one-time construction of the...