The Lagrangian coder control together with the parameter choice is presented that lead to the creation of the new hybrid video coder specifications TMN-10 for H.263 and TML for H.26L. An efEcient approach for the determination of the encoding parameters is developed. It is shown by means of experimental results that the Lagrange multiplier for the macroblock mode decision corre sponds to the ne...

Software development in parallel/distributed environment is a non-trivial task and depends greatly on the availability of appropriate support in terms of development tools and environments. Perforamnce pre-diction/evaluation tools form a critical part of any software development environment as they enable the developer to visualize the eeects of various design choices on the performance of the ...

a volume. The matter has been well selected, the diction is terse and simple, the numerous illustrations are quite as good as in any English text-book, and one cannot help thinking that this book will prove a serious rival to the much more bulky works, such as Gray, Morris, &c., and we shall indeed be surprised if a successful career does not await this book, if the second volume be as good as ...

A method for automatic plot analysis of narrative texts that uses components of both traditional symbolic analysis of natural language and statistical machine-learning is presented for the story rewriting task. In the story rewriting task, an exemplar story is read to the pupils and the pupils rewrite the story in their own words. This allows them to practice language skills such as spelling, d...

We describe a method for predicting a clas­ sification of an object given classifications of the objects in the training set, assuming that the pairs object/classification are generated by an i.i.d. process fr om a continuous proba­ bility distribution. Our method is a modifica­ tion of Vapnik's support-vector machine; its main novelty is that it gives not only the pre­ diction itself but also ...