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TVCG
2012
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13 years 2 months ago
Interactive Image Segmentation Based on Level Sets of Probabilities
—In this paper, we present a robust and accurate algorithm for interactive image segmentation. The level set method is clearly advantageous for image objects with a complex topol...
Yugang Liu, Yizhou Yu
PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A compiler framework for speculative analysis and optimizations
Speculative execution, such as control speculation and data speculation, is an effective way to improve program performance. Using edge/path profile information or simple heuristi...
Jin Lin, Tong Chen, Wei-Chung Hsu, Pen-Chung Yew, ...
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TASE
2008
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
An Optimization-Based Approach for Design Project Scheduling
Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
Ming Ni, Peter B. Luh, Bryan Moser
CHI
1999
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A Better Mythology for System Design
The past decades have seen huge improvements in computer systems but these have proved difficult to translate into comparable improvements in the usability and social integration)...
Jed Harris, D. Austin Henderson Jr.
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BMCBI
2006
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Using the nucleotide substitution rate matrix to detect horizontal gene transfer
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conf...
Micah Hamady, M. D. Betterton, Rob Knight