This paper addresses the problem of automatic detection of salient video segments for real-world applications such as corporate training based on associated speech transcriptions....
We present a comprehensive methodology for realistically animating liquid phenomena. Our approach unifies existing computer graphics techniques for simulating fluids and extends t...
We consider the view maintenance problem in a web-based environment, in which clients query information from databases, stored in the form of materialized data warehouses, without...
To handle the overwhelming amount of information currently available, personalization systems allow users to specify the information that interests them through preferences. Most ...
We propose a general framework to index very large datasets of spatial data in a distributed system. Our proposal is built on the recently proposed Scalable Distributed Rtree (SD-...