Alignment between the input and target objects has great impact on the performance of image analysis and recognition system, such as those for medical image and face recognition. A...
Screen readers, the dominant assistive technology used by visually impaired people to access the Web, function by speaking out the content of the screen serially. Using screen rea...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, I. V. Ramakrishnan, ...
We give a simple combinatorial proof of the Chernoff-Hoeffding concentration bound [Che52, Hoe63], which says that the sum of independent {0, 1}-valued random variables is highly ...
Abstract. Inspired by the early visual system of many mammalians we consider the construction of-and reconstruction from- an orientation score Uf : R2 ×S1 → C as a local orienta...
Database columns are often correlated, so that cardinality estimates computed by assuming independence often lead to a poor choice of query plan by the optimizer. Multidimensional...
Utkarsh Srivastava, Peter J. Haas, Volker Markl, M...