Videos from distributed sources (e.g., broadcasts, podcasts, blogs, etc.) have grown exponentially. Topic threading is very useful for organizing such large-volume information sou...
The majority of the approaches to the automatic recovery of a panoramic image from a set of partial views are suboptimal in the sense that the input images are aligned, or registe...
Face localization is the process of finding the exact position of a face in a given image. This can be useful in several applications such as face tracking or person authenticatio...
Emerging real-time streaming applications often rely on rate-based flow control. However, congestion control for rate-based applications is typically dismissed as being not viable...
We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view ...