In this paper, we propose micro-climate sensing as an effective means of enhancing conventional RF-based localization. Our system targets people tracking applications in dynamic i...
Since 1995, much work has been done creating protocols for private information retrieval (PIR). Many variants of the basic PIR model have been proposed, including such modificati...
Newsgroup participants interact with their communities through conversation threads. They may respond to a message to answer a question, debate a topic, support or disagree with a...
Content-based image retrieval with relevant feedback has been widely adopted as the query model of choice for improved effectiveness in image retrieval. The effectiveness of thi...
In this paper, we develop a system to classify the outputs of image segmentation algorithms as perceptually relevant or perceptually irrelevant with respect to human perception. T...