To our best knowledge, this is the first quantitative study on the impact of the supplier‘s national culture on the client‘s choice of control modes in IS offshoring projects. A survey-based field study was conducted, using a client-supplier matched pair as the unit of analysis. This approach allowed for the examination of the direct control relationship within 46 unique matched pairs. The stud...

In this paper, we propose a recording system for a round-table meeting using microphone array as well as omnidirectional video camera. These equipments are located at the center of the table, and record all the activity during a meeting. They are also used for estimating the directions of speakers, and such data is exploited for reproducing the frontal image of the speaker from omnidirectional ...

2 Chapter 1: Epidemiological and socio-cultural situation analysis of HIV/AIDS in India -General socio-economic and health background in India 3 -Course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India 4 -Impact of the epidemic 5 -Implications for national response to the epidemic 9 -References 10 -Appendix: Economic and health indicators of India 13 Chapter 2: Development of poor commercial sex workers as an...

Omnidirectional video is an adequate image-based scene representation data format for interactive walkthroughs or surround viewing of a scene over the Internet. While efficient compression is a key issue in this context, the properties of omnidirectional video are not in line with the assumptions that are made about video sequences by modern compression standards like MPEG-4 AVC/H.264. We intro...

Crucial to the t ransformat ion of computers into intel l igent mul t imed ia systems is the abi l i ty to access, manipulate and manage visual informat ion . In part icular , video data is becoming a prevalent source of such in format ion. Our Multiple Perspective Interactive Video (MPIVideo), project integrates a variety of visual comput ing operations w i t h model ing and interact ion techn...

Parallel decimal arithmetic capability is becoming increasingly attractive with new applications of computers in a multiprogramming environment. The direct production of decimal sums offers a significant improvement in addition over methods requiring decimal correction. These techniques are illustrated in the eight-digit adder which appears in the System/360 Model 195.

Immersive video offers the freedom to navigate inside virtualized environment. Instead of streaming the bulky immersive videos entirely, a viewport (also referred to as field of view, FoV) adaptive streaming is preferred. We often stream the high-quality content within current viewport, while reducing the quality of representation elsewhere to save the network bandwidth consumption. Consider th...

We review the extension of modern techniques for the calculation of helicity amplitudes in QCD to massive particles. The focus is on the use of supersymmetric Ward identites that relate amplitudes with massive quarks to those with massive scalars, the application of on-shell recursion relations to amplitudes with massive quarks and an extension of the CSW rules to massive scalars.

In this paper, we present an image-based method for the tracking and rendering of faces. We use the algorithm in an immersive video conferencing system where multiple participants are placed in a common virtual room. This requires viewpoint modification of dynamic objects. Since hair and uncovered areas are difficult to model by pure 3-D geometry-based warping, we add image-based rendering tech...

An important outcome of assessing relative efficiencies within a group of decision making units (DMUs) in fuzzy data envelopment analysis is a set of virtual multipliers or weights accorded to each (input or output) factor taken into account. These sets of weights are, typically, different for each of the participating DMUs, and in some cases it may be considered unacceptable that the same fact...