Abstract. The increase in accessability to on-line visual data has promoted the interest in browsing and retrieval of images from Image Databases. Current approaches assume either ...
W e introduce a novel view-based object representation, called the saliency map graph (SMG), which captures the salient regions of an object view at multiple scales using a wavele...
We present a type system for checking object immutability, read-only references, and class immutability in an open or closed world. To allow object initialization outside object co...
In this paper we introduce Web Objects in XML (WOX) as a web protocol for distributed objects, which uses HTTP as its transport protocol and XML as its format representation. It al...
Functionality-based recognition systems recognize objects at the category level by reasoning about how well the objects support the expected function. Such systems naturally assoc...