478 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TimeCube-Efficient Storage, Access and Analysis of Temporal (Historical) Data
This paper introduces TimeCube-a technology product specifically designed for the analysis of master type data or dimensional data (such as customer information) which changes (in an aperiodic manner) over tim...
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Multi-drop VPs for Multiparty Videoconferencing on SONET/ATM Rings -- Architectural Design and Bandwidth Demand Analysis
This paper proposes a scheme for implementing multiparty videoconferencing service on SONET/ATM rings. Different multicasting methods on SONET/ATM rings are discussed and compared. A new multicast VP called “M...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fast and Robust Sprite Generation for MPEG-4 Video Coding
This paper presents a fast and robust sprite generation algorithm for MPEG-4 video coding. Our contributions consist of two aspects. Firstly, a fast and robust Global Motion Estimation (GME) algorithm is propo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive Processing of Tree-Structure Image Representation
Much research on image analysis and processing has been carried out for the last few decades. However, it is still challenging to represent the image contents effectively and satisfactorily. In this paper, a s...
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Emotion Detection from Speech to Enrich Multimedia Content
This paper describes an experimental study on the detection of emotion from speech. As computer-based characters such as avatars and virtual chat faces become more common, the use of emotion to drive the expre...
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Automatic Subject Categorization of Query Terms for Filtering Sensitive Queries in Multimedia Search
The purpose of this paper is to deal with Web query categorization problem. It will present a feasible approach to categorizing Web query terms into pre-defiued subject categories based on their supposed searc...
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Interactive Web Multimedia Search Using Query-Session-Based Query Expansion
The purpose of this paper is to deal with the query expansion problem of Web multimedia search. It will present an effective query expansion mechanism that expands users’ queries by mining the associations amo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Query Similar Music by Correlation Degree
We present in this paper a novel system for query by humming, our method differs from other ones in the followings: Firstly, we use recurrent neural network as the index of music database. Secondly, we present...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Blind Image Restoration Based on 1-D Generalized Cross Validation
Restoring an image from its convolution with an unknown blur function is a well-known ill-posed problem in image processing. The generalized cross validation (GCV) approached was proposed to solved the problem...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Copyright Protection for WAV-Table Synthesis Audio Using Digital Watermarking
In this paper, we present a novel audio watermarking method for WAV-table synthesis audio (Downloadable Sounds - DLS) copyright protection. In order to guarantee the inaudibility and robustness, we embed water...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mining Inter-Transactional Association Rules: Generalization and Empirical Evaluation
The problem of mining multidimensional inter-transactional association rules was recently introduced in [5, 4]. It extends the scope of mining association rules from traditional single-dimensional intratransactio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Face Verification Algorithm Integrating Geometrical and Template Features
One of the key problems in a face recognition system is verification. This paper presented a verification algorithm using SVM classifier with integrated geometrical features and template features based on our ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hysteresis Based Approach for Quality, Frame Rate, and Buffer Management for Video Streaming Using TCP
In today’s Internet, the primary transport mechanism for video streams is the UDP protocol, either congestion sensitive or not. In this paper, we propose a mechanism that supports the high quality streaming an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Right-Sizing: An Automated, Lightweight, and Scalable Technique for Enhancing Grid Performance
With the advent of computational grids, networking performance over the wide-area network (WAN) has become a critical component in the grid infrastructure. Unfortunately, many high-performance grid application...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Robust Algorithm for Video Based Human Motion Tracking
In this paper, we present a robust algorithm to capture rapid human motion with self-occlusion. Instead of predicting the position of each human feature, the interest-region of full body is estimated. Then can...
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A Hybrid Motion Data Manipulation: Wavelet Based Motion Processing and Spacetime Rectification
In this paper, we present a hybrid approach to motion data manipulation. Motion signal is decomposed into multi-resolution levels with wavelet analysis. The coarse level represents the globe pattern of a motio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A New Query Processing Scheme in a Web Data Engine
The explosion of information on the web turns the search for interested information from the web into a great challenge. In this paper, we present a system called Web Data Engine-SESQ (Search Extract Store Que...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Popular Song Retrieval Based on Singing Matching
An approach to retrieval popular song by singing matching is presented in this paper. Vocal singing is the dominant part in popular song, after extracting singing from monaural or stereo recording of popular s...
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Flexible and Efficient Switching Techniques between Scalable Video Bitstreams
In this paper, we first describe a seamless switching scheme for scalable video bitstreams that fully takes advantage of both the high coding efficiency of non-scalable bitstreams and the flexibility of scalab...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A 2-Stage Partial Distortion Search Algorithm for Block Motion Estimation
In this paper, we propose a novel 2-Stage Partial Distortion Search (2S-PDS) algorithm to reduce the computational complexity in block motion estimation algorithms. In this algorithm, an early-rejection stage ...