Coding of video sequences using hierarchical B pictures in the Joint Scalable Video Model (JSVM) for the scalability amendment of H.264/AVC has the benefit of improved rate distor...
Martin Winken, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas...
The direct mode used in the bi-predictive pictures (B-pictures) can efficiently improve the coding performance of B pictures, because it has small overhead and obtains a predictiv...
Symmetry reduction is a technique that can help alleviate the problem of state space explosion in model checking. The idea is to verify only a subset of states from each class (or...
Edd Turner, Michael Leuschel, Corinna Spermann, Mi...
Many safety-related and certification standards exist for developing safety-critical systems. Safety assessments are performed in practice, and system certification according to a...
This paper describes SHAD, a novel architecture for security in pervasive computing environments, and a prototype implementation. SHAD is a Peer-to-Peer and humancentered security...
Enrique Soriano, Francisco J. Ballesteros, Gorka G...