Modeling communications in wireless networks is a challenging task since it asks for a simple mathematical object on which efficient algorithms can be designed, but that must also...
This paper proposes a new Bayesian framework for solving the matting problem, i.e. extracting a foreground element from a background image by estimating an opacity for each pixel ...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Rich...
A commonly used representation of a visual pattern is the set of marginal probability distributions of the output of a bank of filters (Gaussian, Laplacian, Gabor etc...). This re...
—Creating replicas of frequently accessed data objects across a read-intensive Content Delivery Network (CDN) can result in reduced user response time. Because CDNs often operate...
Samee Ullah Khan, Anthony A. Maciejewski, Howard J...
In this paper we discuss the role of a broker in a market-oriented resource allocation model for largescale heterogeneous systems. The simplified model is based upon a three part...