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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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BloomUnit: declarative testing for distributed programs
We present BloomUnit, a testing framework for distributed programs written in the Bloom language. BloomUnit allows developers to write declarative test specifications that descri...
Peter Alvaro, Andrew Hutchinson, Neil Conway, Will...
TOG
2012
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How do humans sketch objects?
Humans have used sketching to depict our visual world since prehistoric times. Even today, sketching is possibly the only rendering technique readily available to all humans. This...
Mathias Eitz, James Hays, Marc Alexa
TOG
2012
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Position-correcting tools for 2D digital fabrication
Many kinds of digital fabrication are accomplished by precisely moving a tool along a digitally-specified path. This precise motion is typically accomplished fully automatically ...
Alec R. Rivers, Ilan E. Moyer, Frédo Durand
CVPR
2012
IEEE
13 years 7 days ago
Using scene features to improve wide-area video surveillance
We introduce two novel methods to improve the performance of wide area video surveillance applications by using scene features. First, we evaluate the drift in intrinsic and extri...
Ziyan Wu, Richard J. Radke
ACL
2012
13 years 7 days ago
A Broad-Coverage Normalization System for Social Media Language
Social media language contains huge amount and wide variety of nonstandard tokens, created both intentionally and unintentionally by the users. It is of crucial importance to norm...
Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng, Xiao Jiang