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PAMI
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
WLD: A Robust Local Image Descriptor
—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...
LCN
2005
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A New Scheme for Interconnecting LANs with Label Switching Bridges
Ethernet, which has traditionally been the dominant technology in Local Area Networks, is now facing new challenges due to the fact that networks have scaled and today’s applica...
Thierry K. Feuzeu, Bernard Cousin
IPCCC
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Overcoming the challenge of security in a mobile environment
The secure operation of ad hoc networks faces the novel challenge of location verification on top of the security challenges that wireline networks face. The novelty lies in the ...
Ioannis Broustis, Michalis Faloutsos, Srikanth V. ...
TELECARE
2004
320views Healthcare» more  TELECARE 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
The Social/Non-Technical Challenges in Developing Technology to Support Elderly Care - "The TeleCARE Experience"
: One of the biggest challenges facing European society in the years ahead is the fact that our population is aging at an alarming rate. If by the year 2020, current forecasts prov...
E. Banahan
FC
2009
Springer
142views Cryptology» more  FC 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Passwords: If We're So Smart, Why Are We Still Using Them?
While a lot has changed in Internet security in the last 10 years, a lot has stayed the same – such as the use of alphanumeric passwords. Passwords remain the dominant means of a...
Cormac Herley, Paul C. van Oorschot, Andrew S. Pat...