-temporal motion descriptor. To classify the action being performed by a human figure in a query sequence, we retrieve nearest neighbor(s) from a database of stored, annotated video sequences. We can also use these retrieved exemplars to transfer 2D/3D skeletons onto the figures in the query sequence, as well

, the routers or switches of the network perform customized computations on the messages flowing through them. For example, a user of an active network could send a “trace ” program to each router and arrange for the program to be executed when their packets are processed. Figure 1 illustrates how the routers

motivates a new qualitative representation for quantity in terms of inequalities, called the quantity space. This paper describes the basic concepts of qualitative process theory, several different kinds of reasoning that can be performed with them, and discusses its implications for causal reasoning

Abstract Recently, researchers have demonstrated that "loopy belief propagation" -the use of Pearl's polytree algorithm in a Bayesian network with loops -can perform well in the context of error-correcting codes. The most dramatic instance of this is the near Shannon

This banner was generated by merging the source images in Figure 6 using our interactive texture merging technique. In this paper we introduce a new algorithm for image and video texture synthesis. In our approach, patch regions from a sample image or video are transformed and copied to the output

A n ef ic ient fa i r queueing scheme which is feasi-ble f o r broadband implementation i s proposed and i ts performance i s analyzed. W e define fairness in a self-contained manner, eliminating the need f o r the hypo-thetical fluid-flow reference sys tem used in the present state of art

the user to determine the reason that a false conjecture is false. The paper includes detailed performance figures on conjectures derived from realistic program-checking problems.

. Simulation results, which focus on a IP telephony scenario, show that, despite the lack of core routers cooperation, toll-quality performance figures (99th delay percentiles not greater than few ms per router) can be obtained even in severe overload conditions. Finally, a comparison with an EAC scheme driven

. They conclude that swap market-specific supply/demand shocks drive the unexplained changes in swap rates. Existing literature on credit spread changes is limited. 3 Pedrosa and Roll (1998) document considerable co-movement of credit spread changes among index portfolios of bonds from various industry, quality

We present a method for object categorization in real-world scenes. Following a common consensus in the field, we do not assume that a figure-ground segmentation is available prior to recognition. However, in contrast to most standard approaches for object class recognition, our approach