This paper introduces the DUP System, a simple framework for parallel stream processing. The DUP System enables developers to compose applications from stages written in almost any...
—We consider the problem of inferring and modeling topics in a sequence of documents with known publication dates. The documents at a given time are each characterized by a topic...
Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici, Lu Ren, John William Pai...
—Inspired by Weber’s Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, called the Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that hum...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Chu He, Guoying Zhao, Mat...
Abstract. Content retrieval of scanned line drawing images is a difficult problem, especially from real-life large scale databases. Existing algorithms don’t work well due to th...
Abstract—The proliferation of WLAN infrastructures has facilitated numerous indoor localization techniques using WLAN fingerprints. In particular, identifying a room or a place i...