As with many large organizations, the Government's data is split in many different ways and is collected at different times by different people. The resulting massive data he...
An algorithm for tracking a person's head is presented. The head's projection onto the image plane is modeled as an ellipse whose position and size are continually updat...
Background: Genome sequence alignments form the basis of much research. Genome alignment depends on various mundane but critical choices, such as how to mask repeats and which sco...
Abstract--This paper considers the problem of scalable distributed coding of correlated sources that are communicated to a central unit, a setting typically encountered in sensor n...
Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...