An expanded and improved information technology capability is the fundamental heart of the network -centric warfare (NCW) vision. The NCW vision is worthy and is a direct path to achieving improved collaborative power and information dominance. The potential benefits of diverse information sharing and interconnection are manifold, but at the same time difficult to fully predict and quantify. Mo...

The paper define the problem situation of digital identification in ICT infrastructures from three perspectives: systems, end user and technology. It details the research agenda and outcomes in terms of: a collaborative research cycle, the project goals, high level requirements and features of the proposed system. Finally, the FeGIMa vision is elaborated in terms of two impacts, that outlines t...

Image and geometry registration algorithms are an essential component of many computer graphics and computer vision systems. With recent technological advances in RGB-D sensors, such as the Microsoft Kinect or Asus Xtion Live, robust algorithms that combine 2D image and 3D geometry registration have become an active area of research. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of 2D/3D r...

Active three-dimensional vision is concerned with extracting information from the geometry and the texture of the visible surfaces in a scene, reasoning about the data and finally, communicating the results. With the recent technological advances made in electronics, photonics, computer vision and computer graphics, it is now possible to construct reliable, high resolution and accurate three-di...

In order to enhance the active life of senior professionals, one fundamental challenge is to identify ways to assist promoting the role of elder people within the continuously ageing European society. This paper proposes a vision for establishing required support environment for communities of active senior professionals, and provision of fundamental ICT tools for senior professionals to contin...

medical science experts have reached scientific and technological improvements in recent ‎decades and have turned surgery into a routine treatment by controlling its complications. ‎cumulative changes in surgery resulted in decreased pain and discomfort and controlled ‎complications. the developmental path and changes have resulted in endoscopic with minimal ‎invasive surgery (mis) in which onl...

The article analyzes the fields of application machine vision. Special attention is focused on Machine Vision in intelligent technological systems for product quality control. An important aspect a quick and effective analysis directly at stage process with high accuracy determining defects. appropriateness perspective using mathematical apparatus artificial neural networks development an syste...

Emerging Technologies in Distance Education is an open access book showcasing how emerging participatory technologies have been used in online distance education. In this session, the editor will discuss current issues and future directions for using emerging technologies with special attention to pedagogical, technological, cultural, and social factors that influence the adoption and successfu...

In the last decade the separate technologies of the Internet and mobile computing have started converging with the advent of two major technologies, WAP and i-mode, that emerged and attempted to realize the vision of wireless Internet. This paper reviews the main technological, architectural and business issues related to WAP and imode. It also discusses their main assets and weaknesses as well...

Multimedia communications play a growing role in the every day’s life of modern societies. This change was largely made using technology specified by the MPEG standardization body. For example, the MP3 music coding format is not anymore just a technological term but a multimedia commodity that all generations are already familiar with. This paper provides an evolutional overview of MPEG standar...