In this work, we study the notion of competing campaigns in a social network. By modeling the spread of influence in the presence of competing campaigns, we provide necessary too...
Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
Automated detection of lesions in retinal images can assist
in early diagnosis and screening of a common disease:
Diabetic Retinopathy. A robust and computationally
efficient ap...
Saiprasad Ravishankar (University of Illinois Urba...
Skeletonization algorithms typically decompose an object’s
silhouette into a set of symmetric parts, offering a
powerful representation for shape categorization. However,
havi...
Alex Levinshtein, Sven Dickinson, Cristian Sminchi...
Local experts have been used to great effect for fitting deformable
models to images. Typically, the best location in
an image for the deformable model’s landmarks are found
t...