We study the problem of anonymizing user profiles so that user privacy is sufficiently protected while the anonymized profiles are still effective in enabling personalized web sea...
Sharpness is one of the most determining factors in the perceptual assessment of image quality. Objective image sharpness measures may play important roles in the design and optim...
Interruptions occur frequently in spontaneous conversations, and they are often associated with changes in the flow of conversation. Predicting interruption is essential in the d...
In this paper we deal with the problem of finding an optimal query execution plan in database systems. We improve the analysis of a polynomial-time approximation algorithm due to M...
Abstract. This paper presents a bimodal biometric verification system based on the fusion of palmprint and face features at the matching-score level. The system combines a new appr...