We consider regions of images that exhibit smooth statistics, and pose the question of characterizing
the “essence” of these regions that matters for visual recognition. Ideal...
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi (UCLA), Peter Petersen (UCLA...
Performance of applications can be boosted by executing application-specific Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) on a specialized hardware coupled with a processor core. Many commer...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
Data streams are usually generated in an online fashion characterized by huge volume, rapid unpredictable rates, and fast changing data characteristics. It has been hence recogniz...
Xuan Hong Dang, Wee Keong Ng, Kok-Leong Ong, Vince...
We consider an architecture for a serverless distributed file system that does not assume mutual trust among the client computers. The system provides security, availability, and ...
William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, David Ely, Ma...