Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality prints is t...
Sharat Chikkerur, Venu Govindaraju, Alexander N. C...
In this paper we analyze the Ricean K-factor for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications in a typical open suburban street crossing. The channel conditions vary from non line-of si...
Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...
1 The number and the size of spatial databases, e.g. for geomarketing, traffic control or environmental studies, are rapidly growing which results in an increasing need for spatial...
Martin Ester, Alexander Frommelt, Hans-Peter Krieg...
Active object exploration is one of the hallmarks of human and animal intelligence. Research in psychology has shown that the use of multiple exploratory behaviors is crucial for ...