Transform approximations are explored for speeding up the software compression of images and video. Approximations are used to replace the regular discrete cosine transform (DCT) w...
Fractal image encoding is a computationally intensive method of compression due to its need to find the best match between image sub-blocks by repeatedly searching a large virtual...
A join-index is a data structure used for processing join queries in databases. Join-indices use precomputation techniques to speed up online query processing and are useful for da...
In this paper, we proposed an improved “bottom-up” variable-size block matching method. Different from previous work, the proposed method does not need any threshold during th...
Abstract. In engineering applications, we need to make decisions under uncertainty. Traditionally, in engineering, statistical methods are used, methods assuming that we know the p...
Vladik Kreinovich, Jan Beck, Carlos Ferregut, Arac...