Hypergeometric series are powerful mathematical tools with many usages. Many mathematical functions, such as trigonometric functions, can be partly or entirely expressed in terms of them. In most cases this allows efficient ...

This thesis proposes a robust method of creating a 3D digital model of an object through stereoscopic reconstruction. There are existing methods and tools for achieving this, but they tend to only perform well under favorable ...

The compression efficiency of Distributed Video-Coding (DVC) suffers from the necessity of transmitting a large number of key-frames which are intra-coded. This paper describes a new 3D model-basedDVC approach which reduces ...

3D Tele-immersive systems create real-time multi-stream and multi-view 3D collaborative contents from multiple sites to allow interactive shared activities in virtual environments. Applications of 3DTI include online sports, ...

As general purpose robots begin to find their way into the household and workplace, there will be a demand for software to run on these robots. My research group forsees the proliferation of robot apps that use a common ...

In evaluating a query using a network database, the links need to either be followed or be saved. Most of the previous approaches follow the links in evaluating a query using a network database. Actually, it is not always ...

In this paper, we propose a new protocol, named DDA (Distributed Delay Allocation), which provides average delay guarantees to real-time multimedia applications in wireless ad hoc networks. By adapting the contention window ...

The stability of the Internet depends on the presence of well-behaved flows. While TCP forms the majority of the traffic over the Internet, the Internet user community is also dedicated to supporting mobile devices over ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were originally motivated by military applications, and are becoming integral part of more and more civilian applications to improve quality of life. With current wireless sensor network ...

Ubiquitous computing environments and the plethora of mobile devices that populate them have led to a global trend for remote collaboration and interaction. This trend demands seamless in-terfaces for remote interaction ...