We propose an adaptive skin-detection method, which allows modelling and detection of the true skin-color pixels with significantly higher accuracy and flexibility than previous...
It has been shown repeatedly that iterative relevance feedback is a very efficient solution for content-based image retrieval. However, no existing system scales gracefully to hu...
This paper introduces a fast data dissemination method for structured peer-to-peer networks. The work is motivated on one side by the increase in non-volatile memory available on ...
Mihai Lupu, Jianzhong Li, Beng Chin Ooi, Shengfei ...
Abstract— Performance of proxy caches for database federations that serve a large number of users is crucially dependent on its physical design. Current techniques, automated or ...
Tanu Malik, Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Debabra...
Due to the structural heterogeneity of XML, queries are often interpreted approximately. This is achieved by relaxing the query and ranking the results based on their relevance to ...